Found 4 hits - Term: capsize, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
capsize \capsize"\, 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.
1913 webster
but what if carrying sail capsize the boat? --byron.
1913 webster
see also:
capsized capsizing
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
capsize \cap"size`\, n.
an upset or overturn.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
capsize
v : overturn accidentally; "don't rock the boat or it will
capsize" syn: turtle, turn turtle
see also:
turtle turn turtle
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
55 moby thesaurus words for "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
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