English-Dutch translations for overboard

• overboord
  Moet je ze overboord gooien, moeten ze ergens aangeland worden? Should they be thrown overboard or taken somewhere?
  Mijnheer de Voorzitter, elke dag worden er door schepen vijf miljoen stuks vast afval overboord gezet. Mr President, every day five million items of solid waste are thrown overboard from ships.
  Er wordt veeleer een nieuw begin gevraagd, waarbij de opgedane ervaringen niet overboord moeten worden geworpen. We do want a new beginning, but not one in which tried and tested methods are thrown overboard.

Definition of overboard

• Outside of a boat, in the water
• Over the edge; especially, off or outside of a boat
• Excessively; too much
• To throw over the edge of a boat into the water

Examples

• It was their practice to throw the scraps overboard
• They really went overboard with the party preparations

Related words

• hoverboard
• man overboard
• go overboard