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UK
/kˈæpsaɪz/
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[ US /ˈkæpˌsaɪz/ ]
[ US /ˈkæpˌsaɪz/ ]
VERB
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overturn accidentally
Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!
How To Use capsize In A Sentence
- Authorities are conducting a battery of tests on the ill-fated Ethan Allen to try and determine why the boat capsized on Lake George.
- At least five people were killed when an overcrowded migrant boat capsized last month which was dramatically caught on camera by Italian coastguards. The Sun
- Assisting a cargo vessel approach its berth she got into difficulties and capsized.
- How many men drowned when the boat capsized?
- Officer Bud Walker said her capsized scull was found about 5: 30 p.m. near Fountainhead Regional Park. Fairfax County woman missing, last seen rowing boat in Occoquan Reservoir
- Five more went missing when their boat capsized in the icy waters as they searched for the original group.
- The trio had been missing for three days after their small rowing boat capsized in rough seas. The Sun
- Mills designed the boat for a small sprit-rigged sail which tends to spill wind, minimizing capsizes.
- The lawsuit says that he was thrown about like he was inside a washing machine as the vessel capsized. Times, Sunday Times
- Even when, later still, the general's eager hand, stretching forth for the dusky flagon (it was sacrilege to sweep away those insignia of age and respectability), managed to capsize the candelabrum and sent the fluid "adamantine" spattering a treasured table-cloth (how quick the dash of the young trooper's hand upon the flame -- and its extinction!), a gentle smile was the sole rebuke, followed by a "Thank you, Mr. Harris. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War