overboard
overboard is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of a ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard. To throw overboard, to discard; to abandon, as a dependent or friend.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abandon
- abandonment
- about
- abstain
- abstinence
- alone
- apart
- aside
- away
- back
- banish
- bar
- bating
- behind
- blackball
- cast
- cede
- cession
- chosen
- cofferdam
- course
- culls
- declination
- decline
- deed
- deny
- derelict
- dereliction
- destroy
- desuetude
- disburden
- discard
- disclaim
- disjoin
- dismantle
- dismiss
- dispensation
- dispense
- dispose
- dispossess
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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