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Capsize

Capsize Meaning & Definition
Capsize Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Capsize?

[v] overturn accidentally, as of boats; "Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Capsize: turn turtle | turtle

Related Terms | Find terms related to Capsize: be lost | careen | come a cropper | culbuter | fall | fall down | fall flat | fall headlong | fall over | fall prostrate | flounder | founder | get a cropper | go down | invert | keel | keel over | list | lurch | overset | overthrow | overturn | pitch | pitchpole | scuttle | sink | somersault | sprawl | spread-eagle | stagger | stumble | subvert | take a fall | take a flop | take a header | take a pratfall | take a spill | tilt | tip over | topple | topple down | topple over | topsy-turvify | topsy-turvy | totter | trip | tumble | turn a somersault | turn over | turn topsy-turvy | turn turtle | turn upside down | upset | upset the boat | upturn

See Also | overturn | tip over | turn over

Capsize In Webster's Dictionary

\Cap*size"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Capsized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Capsizing}.] [Cf. Sp. cabecear to nod, pitch, capuzar, chapuzar, to sink (a vessel) by the head; both fr. L. caput head.] To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body. But what if carrying sail capsize the boat? --Byron.
\Cap"size`\, n. An upset or overturn.

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