Word.ws English Dictionary

overboarding

overboarding is the present participle and gerund of overboard.

Meaning of overboard

Verb

overboard (third-person singular simple present overboards, present participle overboarding, simple past and past participle overboarded)

  1. (transitive) To throw over the edge of a boat into the water.
    • ‘Call home that runt Edmund Bonner. He has trotted after me from Spain into France and I swear the next time we take ship I will overboard him.’2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 565
  2. (transitive) To cover (a ceiling) with plasterboard to create a new surface.

See all 5 meanings of overboard

Noun

overboarding (uncountable)

  1. The situation in which a director sits on too many boards of directors.

Questions about overboarding

What does overboarding mean?
Overboarding means the situation in which a director sits on too many boards of directors.
What is overboarding the present participle and gerund of?
Overboarding is the present participle and gerund of overboard.
What part of speech is overboarding?
Overboarding is a noun.

Words near overboarding in the dictionary

  1. overblown
  2. overblownness
  3. overblows
  4. overboard
  5. overboarded
  6. overboarding
  7. overboards
  8. overboast
  9. overboasted
  10. overboastful
  11. overboasting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: overboarding (page history and authors); overboard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “overboarding.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/overboarding. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.