Crossword-Solution: OVERBOARD 9 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Overboard adv. Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of a
ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard.

We have 20 clues for the answer “OVERBOARD”

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Lovers stripped with poet to embrace love in the water 1 answer
from on board a vessel into the water 1 answer
from a vessel into the water 1 answer
from a boat into the water 1 answer
Where not to fall 1 answer
Where jetsam goes 1 answer
Where Jonah went 1 answer
Place to fall 1 answer
Place of excess 1 answer
Out of a ship. 1 answer
Into the water. 1 answer
Go ___ (take extreme action) 1 answer
Go ___ (go to extremes). 1 answer
Go ___ (be very enthusiastic). 1 answer
Go (do more than necessary) 1 answer
From ship to sea. 1 answer
From a ship into the water 1 answer
Excessive~~Harm, as a houseplant~~Operating expenses 1 answer
Goldie Hawn flick 2 answers
Man 87 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVERBOARD (5)

But Peter issued from the powder magazine with the shell in his hands, and calmly flung it overboard.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
But a very great tempest came on, and the ship being in danger of sinking, he threw all his merchandise overboard, and barely escaped with his life in the empty ship.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
The ship was moving slowly at the time, and as I lunged overboard into the darkness beneath I shuddered at the awful plunge I thought awaited me, for all day the fleet had sailed thousands of feet above the ground; but to my utter surprise I struck upon a soft mass of vegetation not twenty feet from the deck of the ship.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Again, they had to be supervised closely as many tried to starve themselves to death or to jump overboard.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
They had eaten of this marvelous fruit which nature concentrates within the hard shell of the sorapus nut, and having eaten had cast the husk overboard.
The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with OVERBOARD (3)

So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.
Herman Melville Moby-Dick or, The Whale
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and we…
David Foster Wallace A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Just because the boat rocks doesn't mean it's time to jump overboard.
Suzanne Woods Fisher The Keeper: A Novel
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 12 times in crossword archives (1942–2006).