waterboard

== English == === 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”). === Noun === 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. === Verb === waterboard (third-person singular simple present waterboards, present participle waterboarding, simple past and past participle waterboarded) (transitive) To subject to waterboarding, to pour water over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive. ==== Descendants ==== → Dutch: waterboarden ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Broadwater == Dutch == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: wa‧ter‧board === Verb === waterboard inflection of waterboarden: first-person singular present indicative (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative imperative