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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
capsize
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a boat capsizes/overturns (=turns over in the water)
▪ Will stood up suddenly and the boat capsized.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A huge wave struck the side of our boat, almost capsizing it.
▪ People were fighting for places in the lifeboat, and there was a real danger of it capsizing.
▪ The ship capsized in rough waters with the loss of 208 lives.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And we had to keep our water supply low down, or the risk of capsize would be unacceptable.
▪ And when - inevitably - you do capsize, you soon learn how to not make the same mistakes again.
▪ And, of course, if the capsize happened in the wide ocean, then the crew was in real trouble.
▪ He might as well capsize the dinghy and be done with it.
▪ One day Prospero commanded a spirit to raise a terrible storm to capsize a passing ship.
▪ The fragile canoe did not capsize!
▪ The giant fund-raising event took place on Saturday but the choppy waters caused some competitors to capsize.
▪ There, in theory, it would be safe and the weight would help stabilise the raft and prevent a capsize.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Capsize

Capsize \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.

Capsize

Capsize \Cap"size`\, n. An upset or overturn.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
capsize

1780 (transitive); 1792 (intransitive), a nautical word of obscure origin, perhaps (as Skeat suggests) from Spanish capuzar "to sink by the head," from cabo "head," from Latin caput (see capitulum). For sense, compare French chavirer "to capsize, upset," faire capot "capsize;" Provençal cap virar "to turn the head." Related: Capsized; capsizing.

Wiktionary
capsize

vb. 1 (context intransitive nautical English) To overturn. 2 (context transitive nautical English) To cause (a ship) to overturn.

WordNet
capsize

v. overturn accidentally; "Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!" [syn: turtle, turn turtle]

Wikipedia
Capsize (song)

"Capsize" is a single by American duo Frenship, released on June 18, 2016. It features the vocal collaboration of American songwriter Emily Warren.

Usage examples of "capsize".

One canoa containing ten Frenchmen, was capsized, to the great peril of the Frenchmen, who lost all their weapons.

Aragon, is a machine for capsizing the mind, was first conjured up by the Dadaist movement, whose romantic origins and anemic dandyism must be noted.

They would grapple the oars, and seizing hold of the gunwhale, capsize the boat, and then we should be entirely at their mercy.

Repair ship Vestal badly damaged, minelayer Oglala sunk, seaplane tender Curtiss damaged, miscellaneous auxiliary Utah capsized.

The humans who came its way, capsized fishermen or ritual offerings provided by the landbound worshippers of the Sea-Our-Mother, were easy prey.

Occasionally the projecting out-riggers of their slight shallops running foul of one another, would become entangled beneath the water, threatening to capsize the canoes, when a scene of confusion would ensue that baffles description.

If he is lucky he gets on to the capsized sledge again, but we have seen dogs and sledges arrive without drivers.

But they also have to be on the lookout for inequalities, and see that the sledges do not capsize.

Of course the whole House followed the tribunes of the plebs, leaving Scaurus and our dear friend Piggle-wiggle shouting to nothing more than a couple of hundred capsized stools.

Huge waves threatened to capsize the Argo, despite the stabilizing effect of the plank-bottomed outriggers on each side.

The deck and hull crushed in by blows from those tree-trunk arms, the vessel capsized, and everyone aboard had gone into the deep blue sea.

The capsized boat floated into an uprooted cedar, extending into the river, and stopped.

In an instant I faced back, just in time to prevent the vessel from flying up into the wind, and very probably capsizing her.

The current snatched and spun the craft, nearly capsizing it before Taran could thrust a pole into the water.

Gentleman took up the oars to turn us, we rocked again, and I grew suddenly frightened of the boat capsizing, imagining the water filling all those folds and frills and sucking us under.