overboard
/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌbɔː(ɹ)d/ adverb B2- Over the edge; especially, off or outside of a boat. · It was their practice to throw the scraps overboard.
- Excessively; too much. · They really went overboard with the party preparations.
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But a very great tempest came on, and the ship being in danger of sinking, he threw all his merchandise overboard, and barely escaped with his life in the empty ship.
“Jack has been lost overboard in gale off St.
She said she hadn’t time to get sick, watching to see that I didn’t fall overboard.
And Jane Andrews nearly fell overboard.
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