adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
washed overboard (= pushed from a boat into the sea by the force of the water )
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The young man was washed overboard in the storm.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
fall
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And what happened, that a girl should fall overboard ?
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They are not allowed out of this dark passage, in case they fall overboard .
go
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I decided to go overboard with processors and connected three digital multi-effects units and a mono delay.
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My problem is, I have a tendency to go overboard with compliments.
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They were to stay on the alert for any soldier unlucky enough to go overboard .
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Although Levin sometimes goes overboard with jokes, his breezy, slightly irreverent tone is a welcome one.
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Then more cans of the gas, so carefully loaded the day before, went overboard .
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You are demonstrating to them how to recognize, name and communicate their feelings without going overboard .
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Gifford had gone overboard a bit in the blues though ... For some reason this thought made Edwin chuckle to himself.
throw
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A Soviet kitchen hand, hit on the head and thrown overboard .
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Then we had thrown overboard everything that was biodegradable and kept the rest in a special rubbish barrel.
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Jonah volunteers to be thrown overboard as a sacrifice to the deep in order for them to survive.
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Traditional values and old-fashioned rules of journalism have been thrown overboard in the competitive race for audiences and commercial success.
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This area of business is so important that the nuclear nations should throw overboard all thought of evenhandedness.
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The remains of the Con federate machinist who was torn to pieces were shoveled into buckets and thrown overboard .
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In Nicodemia people were bundled into barges, taken out to sea and thrown overboard .
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The vinyl coating on the flight-deck Hueys was peeled off and thrown overboard .
wash
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The tragic yachtsman, a Tynesider in his 40s, was washed overboard as he tried to change a sail.
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Some of the food had been washed overboard , and the rest would follow or soon be ruined.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And what happened, that a girl should fall overboard ?
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But the flare was useless and I tossed it overboard .
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I threw the decayed rattan overboard .
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One error and he would have been torn loose and hurled overboard to be smothered by the driving spray.