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capsized

/kap-sahyz, kap-sahyz/US // ˈkæp saɪz, kæpˈsaɪz //UK // (kæpˈsaɪz) //

倾覆,翻倒了,倾覆的,翻船

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Definitions

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    cap·sized, cap·siz·ing.

    • : to turn bottom up; overturn: The ferry capsized and sank in minutes.With a strong kick he capsized the stool.
    • : to upset or collapse: Their marriage almost capsized when they lost their only child.He has a secret that could capsize his career.

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Examples

  • At the apex of each leap, the whales barrel-roll, or capsize backward.

  • Lacking power, the ship was driven shoreward toward rocks, rolling and pitching so uncontrollably it nearly capsized.

  • One is tilted sideways and sinking like a capsized ship, while “Benefits of Isolation” is a prisonlike tower that looks like a model of a relic from a vanished civilization.

  • NBC 7 reports that the County Medical Examiner’s Office has released the names of the three people who died Sunday after a “severely overcrowded” boat capsized in the waters off Point Loma.

  • They looked like toy ships on uncertain seas—heaving starboard, falling portside, too much in the bow, sinking in the stern—but they didn’t capsize.

  • Q: Trying to overthrow the Constitution and deliberately capsize the U.S. economy?

  • Men may refuse the challenge of trying to right a ship on the verge of capsize, preferring to wait for an easier test.

  • I am grieved to say that Mr. Billings remarked, "Let's go aboard the blank, and capsize the whole blank trunk."

  • The pace became so hot that a small obstacle would capsize the sledge, causing it to roll over and over down the slope.

  • Now all hung by a hair, we could not manage the boat and it must inevitably capsize and be swamped under this foaming crest.

  • Kiv-i-ung, who had never abused the boy, had gone out with the rest, but his kayak did not capsize.

  • He was a good swimmer, but he knew well that were his canoe to capsize he could not hope to survive long in these cold waters.