Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

go by the board

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.16 in modern English

Syllables: go by the board
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

1

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To fall or to go overboard; to be cast over the side of a ship.

verb

To be superseded, rejected, or obliterated; to pass by with little consequence; to amount to nothing.

Example Sentences

"How many cups of tea I drank, because Dora made it, I don’t know. But, I perfectly remember that I sat swilling tea until my whole nervous system, if I had had any in those days, must have gone by the board."

Inflected Forms

goes by the board (present, singular) going by the board (participle, present) went by the board (past) gone by the board (participle, past)

Questions

What does go by the board mean?: To fall or to go overboard; to be cast over the side of a ship.

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