CAPSIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capsize mean? 

• CAPSIZE (verb)
  The verb CAPSIZE has 1 sense:

1. overturn accidentally

  Familiarity information: CAPSIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPSIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they capsize    ... he / she / it capsizes   
Past simple: capsized   
Past participle: capsized   
-ing form: capsizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Overturn accidentally

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

capsize; turn turtle; turtle

Context example:

Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!

Hypernyms (to "capsize" is one way to...):

overturn; tip over; tump over; turn over (turn from an upright or normal position)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

We were both of us capsized in a second, and both of us rolled, almost together, into the scuppers, the dead red-cap, with his arms still spread out, tumbling stiffly after us.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The capsized sled ground over him, and the dogs dashed on up the street, adding to the gayety of Skaguay as they scattered the remainder of the outfit along its chief thoroughfare.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The spritsail filled with the wind, suddenly, careening the frail open craft till it seemed it would surely capsize.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I don't know how long I may live, or how soon I may die; but I know that if I was capsized, any night, in a gale of wind in Yarmouth Roads here, and was to see the town-lights shining for the last time over the rollers as I couldn't make no head against, I could go down quieter for thinking There's a man ashore there, iron-true to my little Em'ly, God bless her, and no wrong can touch my Em'ly while so be as that man lives.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His club landed heavily on the gaunt ribs, and the grub-box was capsized on the ground.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

One boat lowered away with the plugs out, filled with women and children and then with water, and capsized.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The wind would instantly capsize the boat; the seas would swamp it the moment it fell into the trough; and, besides, the sail, lashed to the spare oars, dragged in the sea ahead of us.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)