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overboards

overboards is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

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Questions about overboards

What is overboards the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overboards is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overboard.

Words near overboards in the dictionary

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

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