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OVERBOARD
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
From on board a vessel into the water
Example:
they dropped their garbage overboard
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Sense 2
Meaning:
To extremes
Example:
he went overboard to please his in-laws
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Context examples:
The two warders had been shot and thrown overboard, and so also had the third mate.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It seemed shallow enough, and holding the cut hawser in both hands for a last security, I let myself drop softly overboard.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I recoiled before contemplation of that frightful death, and for a moment I entertained the wild idea of seizing Maud in my arms and leaping overboard.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The skipper was not displeased with the compliment, and went on:—When we got past the Bosphorus the men began to grumble; some o' them, the Roumanians, came and asked me to heave overboard a big box which had been put on board by a queer lookin' old man just before we had started frae London.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
At length I was clear of my dangerous neighbour, and just as I gave the last impulsion, my hands came across a light cord that was trailing overboard across the stern bulwarks.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
But the cook was after me, shouting through the lee galley door: ’Ere, you! Don’t tyke all night about it! Where’s the pot? Lost overboard?
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Cap'n, said he at length with that same uncomfortable smile, here's my old shipmate, O'Brien; s'pose you was to heave him overboard.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Sorry, but I’ve lost the signal book overboard,” he remarked, and the group of hunters grinned.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
And again dodging the boom, I ran to the colour lines, handed down their cursed black flag, and chucked it overboard.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The blow which he had received before going overboard had laid his scalp open several inches.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
