throw+overboard

  • 21overboard — adv. Overboard is used with these verbs: ↑dump, ↑fall, ↑jump, ↑throw, ↑toss …

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  • 22To throw over — Over O ver, adv. 1. From one side to another; from side to side; across; crosswise; as, a board, or a tree, a foot over, i. e., a foot in diameter. [1913 Webster] 2. From one person or place to another regarded as on the opposite side of a space… …

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  • 23Children Overboard Affair — See also: Australian federal election, 2001 The Children Overboard affair was an Australian political controversy involving public allegations by Howard government ministers in October 2001, in the lead up to a federal election, that sea faring… …

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  • 24Relinquishment — I (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Relinquishment >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 relinquishment relinquishment abandonment Sgm: N 1 desertion desertion defection secession withdrawal Sgm: N 1 cave of Adullam cave of Adullam Sgm: N 1 nolle prosequi …

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  • 25discard — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. cast off, reject, abandon, repudiate, throw aside. See nullification, ejection, disuse, relinquishment. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. reject, throw away, get rid of, dispose of, throw out, expel,… …

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  • 26Rejection — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Rejection >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 rejection rejection repudiation exclusion Sgm: N 1 refusal refusal &c. 764 Sgm: N 1 declination declination PARAG:Rejection >V GRP: V 1 Sgm: V 1 r …

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  • 27Disuse — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Disuse >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 forbearance forbearance abstinence Sgm: N 1 disuse disuse Sgm: N 1 relinquishment relinquishment &c. 782 Sgm: N 1 desuetude desuetude &c.(want of habit) 614 Sgm: N 1 …

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  • 28Ejection — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Motion out of, actively. < N PARAG:Ejection >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 ejection ejection emission effusion rejection expulsion eviction extrusion trajection Sgm: N 1 discharge discharge Sgm: N 1 emesis …

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  • 29jettison — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abandonment, abdicate, absentation, back out, beg off, boot out, booting out, bounce, cashier, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, cast out, castaway, casting away, castoff, cessation, chuck, chuck out, cry …

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  • 30cast — Synonyms and related words: Ace bandage, Band Aid, Platonic form, Platonic idea, a thing for, abandon, abdicate, about ship, account, achromatism, acting company, actor, add, address, adhesive tape, aesthetic form, affinity, age group, aggregate …

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