overboard

1. not comparablenauticalOutside of a boat; in the water.

1. not comparableOver the edge; especially, off or outside of a boat.

   It was their practice to throw the scraps overboard.

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   Theon Greyjoy is the most well developed character on that stage, and the action comes down to him. Euron, with Yara underneath his ax, goads Theon into attack. But Theon is overwhelmed by the violence all around him, and instead he jumps overboard.

   2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2017

   Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.

   1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

2. not comparableExcessively; too much.

   They really went overboard with the party preparations.

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   In reality, brains go overboard with this sort of fear validation. They love any chance to prove a fear is valid while ignoring all the reasons it's not.

   2021, Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, “What is... jealousy?”, in Let's Talk About It, →ISBN, page 190

present singular third person overboards · participle present overboarding · participle past overboarded · past overboarded

1. transitiveTo throw over the edge of a boat into the water.

   ‘Call home that runt Edmund Bonner. He has trotted after me from Spain into France and I swear the next time we take ship I will overboard him.’

   2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 565

2. transitiveTo cover (a ceiling) with plasterboard to create a new surface.