Meaning & use
Overboard
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Over the side of a boat or ship into the water; also used idiomatically to mean going to an excessive or extreme degree.
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A crate slid overboard during the storm.
He always goes overboard when decorating for birthday parties.
A note on using this word
The idiom 'go overboard', meaning to do something to excess, dates back to nineteenth-century nautical usage.
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excessivelyto extremes
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