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overboard

POS

Adverb

HYPHEN

o=ver=board

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adverbial overboard has 2 senses

overboard(r = adv.all) - to extremes; "he went overboard to please his in-laws"

overboard(r = adv.all) - from on board a vessel into the water; "they dropped their garbage overboard"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

overboard, adv.

Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of a ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard. [1913 Webster]

To throw overboard, to discard; to abandon, as a dependent or friend. -- To go overboard, to go to an extreme; to overdo; as, he went overboard at the buffet and got an upset stomach.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

overboard, adv. from on a ship into the water (fall overboard).

Idiom

go overboard
1 be highly enthusiastic.
2 behave immoderately; go too far. throw overboard abandon, discard.