overboard
pronunciation
How to pronounce overboard in British English:
UK [ˈəʊvəbɔːd]
How to pronounce overboard in American English:
US [ˈoʊvərbɔːrd]
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- Adverb:
- to extremes
- from on board a vessel into the water
Word Origin
- overboard (adv.)
- "over the side of a ship," Old English ofor bord, from over + bord "side of a ship" (see board (n.2)). Figurative sense of "excessively, beyond one's means" (especially in phrase go overboard) first attested 1931 in Damon Runyon.
Example
- 1. He fell overboard and drowned .
- 2. Websites that use metaphors almost always go way overboard and end up reducing usability .
- 3. As the story goes , the colonists stormed the ships as they pulled into the harbor and chucked some 46 tons of tea overboard .
- 4. And throwing the bodies overboard .
- 5. The girl fell overboard and drowned .