Low and Overboard

Low

Low adjective - Being near the equator.

Overboard is an antonym for low.

Overboard

Overboard adverb - To extremes.

Low is an antonym for overboard in topics: extravagant, overdone.

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / Diamonds Are Forever The "cheating" part comes in because Wint and Kidd planned to kill Tiffany and dump her overboard, and the ensuing man-overboard alarm was sure to guarantee a low mileage.
  • Hellhole Prison And if rations were running low, then they tied rocks to the weak, ill or old and tossed them overboard.
  • Videogame / Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag As it turns out, the historical pirate, Edward Low, did this exact thing to a captured ship's captain who had thrown his gold overboard rather than allow it to be captured.
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