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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CAPSIZE, v.t. To upset or overturn; a seamans phrase.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

verb (capsized; capsizing) Etymology: perhaps from Spanish capuzar or Catalan cabussar to thrust (the head) underwater Date: 1778 transitive verb to cause to overturn <capsize a canoe> intransitive verb to become upset or overturned ; turn over <the canoe capsized> • capsize noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. 1 tr. upset or overturn (a boat). 2 intr. be capsized. Derivatives: capsizal n. Etymology: cap- as in Prov. capvirar, F chavirer: -size unexpl.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(capsizes, capsizing, capsized) If you capsize a boat or if it capsizes, it turns upside down in the water. The sea got very rough and the boat capsized... I didn't count on his capsizing the raft. = overturn VERB: V, V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Upset, overturn.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To overturn or reverse. He took his broth till he capsized; he drank till he fell out of his chair. SEA TERM.

Moby Thesaurus

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