Throw Overboard

Definition: Throw Overboard

Throw Overboard

Verb

1. Lose or lose the right to by some error, offense, or crime.

2. Throw from a boat.

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Synonyms: Throw Overboard

Abrogation

Countermand, counter order; do away with; sweep away, brush away; throw overboard, throw to the dogs; scatter to the winds, cast behind.

Destruction

Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate.

Disuse

Throw aside; (relinquish); make away with; (destroy); cast overboard, heave overboard, throw overboard; cast to the dogs, cast to the winds; dismantle; (Render useless).

Ejection

Eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser; banish; (punish); bounce ; fire, fire out; throw; throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push; throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll; (abrogate); turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to.

Exclusion

Xclude, bar; leave out, shut out, bar out; reject, repudiate, blackball; lay apart, put apart, set apart, lay aside, put aside; relegate, segregate; throw overboard; strike off, strike out; neglect; banish; (seclude); separate.; (disjoin).

Rejection

Repudiate, scout, set at naught; fling to the winds, fling to the dogs, fling overboard, fling away, cast to the winds, cast to the dogs, cast overboard, cast away, throw to the winds, throw to the dogs, throw overboard, throw away, toss to the winds, toss to the dogs, toss overboard, toss away; send to the right about; disclaim; (deny); discard; (eject), (have done with).

Relinquishment

Discard, cast off, dismiss; cast away, throw away, pitch away, fling away, cast aside, cast overboard, cast to the dogs, throw aside, throw overboard, throw to the dogs, pitch aside, pitch overboard, pitch to the dogs, fling aside, fling overboard, fling to the dogs; cast to the winds, throw to the winds, sweep to the winds; put away, turn away, sweep away; jettison; reject.

Victory food from American waters. Crew members throw overboard excess ice from Old Glory's hold. Fishmen allow a proportion of one ton of ice to three tons of fish. When the catch is unusually large as on this trip, some ice is removed to make room for t. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expression using "throw overboard": To throw overboard. Additional references.

Danish

kaste overbords (to throw overboard). (various references)

Dutch

overboord werpen (to throw overboard), overboord gooien (to throw overboard). (various references)

French

jeter par-dessus bord (to throw overboard). (various references)

German

ueber Bord werfen (to throw overboard). (various references)

Greek 

ρίχνω στη θάλασσα (to throw overboard). (various references)

Hungarian

tengerbe dob (to throw overboard), hajóról kidob (to throw overboard), elvet (project, reject, seed, to disapprove, to proscribe, to recant, to reject, to seed, to throw away, to throw out, to throw overboard), ejt (drop, to aggravate, to drop, to splodge, to splotch, to throw overboard). (various references)

Pig Latin

owthray overboarday

Russian 

выбрасывать за борт (jettison). (various references)

Swedish

förkasta (cast off, denounce, disallow, disapprove, disavow, discard, jettison, kill, negative, overrule, reject, reprobate, repudiate, turn down), övergiva (abandon, desert, discard, drop, forsake, jack in, jettison, jilt, plant, slough off, throw over, yield), överge (abandon, desert, discard, drop, forsake, jack in, jettison, jilt, leave, plant, slough off, throw over, yield). (various references)

Turkish

denize atmak. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: overborrow.

-5 letters: arrowroot, heartwood, overboard, overbroad, overthrow.