overboard

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adverb to extremes
  2. adverb from on board a vessel into the water

Etymology

From Middle English overbord, overborde, equivalent to over- + board.

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