waterboard
English edit
Etymology edit
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”).
Noun edit
waterboard (plural waterboards)
- A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.
- A public commission charged with overseeing water quality in a particular area.
- 2005, Ruth M. Mourik, Did Water Kill the Cows?[1], page 167:
- The waterboard argued that the quality of the water was good […]
Verb edit
waterboard (third-person singular simple present waterboards, present participle waterboarding, simple past and past participle waterboarded)
- To subject to waterboarding, to pour water over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive.
- We waterboarded the suspect, but he refused to confess.
Translations edit
to subject to waterboarding
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