Usually means: Excessively exceed reasonable limits, boundaries.
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  1. go overboard: Merriam-Webster
  2. go overboard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. go overboard: Collins English Dictionary
  4. go overboard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. go overboard: Wiktionary
  6. go overboard: Dictionary.com
  7. go overboard: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. go overboard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (go overboard)

▸ verb:  To fall out of a vessel.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To go too far; to exceed reasonable bounds.

Similar:
go by the board, overflow, fall aboard of, run over, keel over, fall down, poop, overcook, overleak, overshoot, more...

Opposite:
restrain, moderate, hold back, limit, control

Phrases:
to go overboard, more...

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Similar:
go by the board, overflow, fall aboard of, run over, keel over, fall down, poop, overcook, overleak, overshoot, more...

Opposite:
restrain, moderate, hold back, limit, control

Phrases:
to go overboard, more...



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