English Explanatory Dictionary

waterboard

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.
  2. A public commission charged with overseeing water quality in a particular area.
verb
  1. To subject to waterboarding, to pour water over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive.

Word forms

waterboard waterboards waterboarding waterboarded

Etymology

From Middle English water boarde, waterbord, equivalent to water + board. Compare West Frisian wetterboard (“waterboard”), Dutch waterbord (“waterboard”), German Wassertafel (“waterboard”), Danish vandbræt (“waterboard”), Swedish vattenbräda (“waterboard”), Icelandic vatnsbretti (“waterboard”).

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