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throw overboard

verb as in ditch

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Example Sentences

It is better to throw overboard both the name and the idea of catarrhal inflammation or rhinitis and start afresh.

Haven't you some fishing tackle there that you could throw overboard now, and let the bait follow the canoe?

I can throw overboard some of the sand ballast, and we will have about the same buoyancy as we had before.

For safety of lives and property, all hands, after being revived with a glass of rum, began to throw overboard the guns.

"Why did you throw overboard your water barrel life preserver; before you clutched my rope," I asked him.

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On this page you'll find 123 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to throw overboard, such as: abandon, discard, dispose of, dump, forsake, and jettison.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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