throw overboard

1. 1.

   lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime

   “you've forfeited your right to name your successor”

   “forfeited property”

   Synonymsforfeitgive upwaiveforgoforego

   Broaderabandon

   Narrowerlapse
2. 2.

   throw from a boat

   Synonymsdeep-six

   Broaderthrow

Questions about throw overboard

What does throw overboard mean?

throw overboard means "lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for throw overboard?

Close synonyms include forfeit, give up, waive, forgo, forego. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is throw overboard a common word?

throw overboard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.