waterboard

water +‎ board

waterboard (plural waterboards)

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.
   • 2005, Ruth M. Mourik, Did Water Kill the Cows?‎, page 167:

     The waterboard argued that the quality of the water was good […]

waterboard (third-person singular simple present waterboards, present participle waterboarding, simple past and past participle waterboarded)

1. 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.

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