"go overboard" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-go overboard.ogg Forms: goes overboard [present, singular, third-person], going overboard [participle, present], went overboard [past], gone overboard [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> overboard}} go overboard (third-person singular simple present goes overboard, present participle going overboard, simple past went overboard, past participle gone overboard)
  1. To fall out of a vessel. Translations (fall out of a vessel): üle parda kukkuma (Estonian), tippua mereen (Finnish), cair na água (Portuguese), ви́пасти за борт (výpasty za bort) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-go_overboard-en-verb-dnjAT9Y4 Disambiguation of 'fall out of a vessel': 97 3
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To go too far; to exceed reasonable bounds. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Synonyms: get carried away, overdo, gild the lily, take (something) too far Translations (go too far): 玩大 (alt: waan⁴⁻² daai⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), transpaŝi la limon (Esperanto), preterpasi (Esperanto), superplenumi (Esperanto), mennä liian pitkälle (Finnish), liioitella (Finnish), mennä ylitse (Finnish), mopo keulii [slang] (Finnish), mopo karkaa käsistä [slang] (Finnish), en faire des tonnes (French), en faire des caisses (French), túltol (Hungarian), tek di ting too far (Jamaican Creole), przesadzać [imperfective] (Polish), przesadzić [perfective] (Polish), ir longe demais (Portuguese), passar dos limites (Portuguese), exagerar (Portuguese), abusar (Portuguese), перегибать палку (peregibatʹ palku) [imperfective] (Russian), sobrepasar los límites (Spanish), exagerar (Spanish), excederse (Spanish), abartmak (Turkish), aşırıya kaçmak (Turkish), переборщи́ти (pereborščýty) (Ukrainian), перестара́тися (perestarátysja) (Ukrainian)
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Inflected forms

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      "sense": "go too far",
      "word": "ir longe demais"
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      "sense": "go too far",
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      "sense": "go too far",
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  "word": "go overboard"
}

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