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Meanings of throw overboard in English

Portuguese
penalidade
Catalan
privar-se
Spanish
perder

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

      penalidade

      Throw from a boat.

            Usage of throw overboard in English
            1
            So jest you throw overboard any idea of her not liking you.
            Anne's House of Dreams
            2
            Once it lands in such a boat, it's difficult to throw overboard.
            Quicksilver
            3
            He is willing to throw overboard Gorfinkel, Schwefeldampf and Undercutt.
            Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
            4
            You've just got to decide which one to throw overboard.
            Secret Sanction
            5
            Now, they attach heavy cubes of rock salt to the cases they throw overboard.
            The new yorker
            6
            Those who, in our judgment, throw overboard much too much we have taken to deporting.
            A Handbook of Ethical Theory
            7
            It is absolutely forbidden to any traveller to throw overboard ballast, or any packet whatever.
            Up in the Clouds: Balloon Voyages
            8
            O Lord, throw overboard all the load we'se totin, and the sins which upset us.
            The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 03, March, 1888
            9
            There was no cargo to throw overboard, nor ballast.
            After London; Or, Wild England
            10
            The victuals were only fit to throw overboard.
            Bob the Castaway; Or, The Wreck of the Eagle
            11
            I used to help nurse the sick, and throw overboard the dead, and it never touched me.
            When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great ...
            12
            I shall just throw overboard certain of my ambitions, and work steadily on at earning a livelihood.
            New Grub Street
            13
            I must really throw overboard that old idealistic German Adam sticking in me like a Sunday afternoon preacher.
            Atlantis
            14
            A last piece of counsel: throw overboard the weekly rag, and write for people capable of understanding you.'
            Born in Exile
            15
            What I needed was something easily seen, a piece of paper, which I could throw overboard and watch.
            The Secret Sharer
            16
            It was at last found necessary to throw overboard the kegs of pork, &c., and let them float down.
            Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
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