throw overboard

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Verb	1.	throw overboard - 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" forfeit, give up, waive, forgo, forego abandon - forsake, leave behind; "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot" lapse - let slip; "He lapsed his membership"
	2.	throw overboard - throw from a boat deep-six throw - propel through the air; "throw a frisbee"

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