noun
Meaning 1
A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.
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waterboard
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noun
Meaning 2
A public commission charged with overseeing water quality in a particular area.
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verb
Meaning 3
To subject to waterboarding, to pour water over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- We waterboarded the suspect, but he refused to confess.
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History
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”).
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 水刑 (shuǐxíng) — to subject to waterboarding
- Dutch: waterboarden — to subject to waterboarding
- Spanish: torturar a lo submarino — to subject to waterboarding
- Spanish: hacer el submarino — to subject to waterboarding
- Spanish: hacer waterboarding (wáterbordin) — to subject to waterboarding
- Spanish: waterbordear — to subject to waterboarding
- Spanish: submarinear — to subject to waterboarding
- Swedish: skendränka — to subject to waterboarding