Capsize
verb
To tilt or turn over a boat or ship.
In the stormy sea, the small boat capsized.
Often appears as...
- capsize a boat
- ship capsized
verb
In a broader sense, to be overturned; to flip over.
During the race, his car capsized after it bumped into a barrier.
Often appears as...
- capsize a vehicle
- car capsized
verb
To tilt or turn over a boat or ship.
In the stormy sea, the small boat capsized.
Often appears as...
- capsize a boat
- ship capsized
verb
In a broader sense, to be overturned; to flip over.
During the race, his car capsized after it bumped into a barrier.
Often appears as...
- capsize a vehicle
- car capsized
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Maritime Context
Used specifically for boats and ships, often implying an accident or mishap on water.
The ferry nearly capsized due to the typhoon.
Pro Tip 2/3Unexpected Event
Capsize usually refers to an unexpected or sudden overturning in water.
We watched in horror as the sailboat capsized in the squall.
Pro Tip 3/3Safety Risk
Capsize often implies danger to people on board, leading to potential rescue operations.
After the boat capsized, the coast guard initiated a rescue mission.
Pro Tip 1/3Maritime Context
Used specifically for boats and ships, often implying an accident or mishap on water.
The ferry nearly capsized due to the typhoon.
Pro Tip 2/3Unexpected Event
Capsize usually refers to an unexpected or sudden overturning in water.
We watched in horror as the sailboat capsized in the squall.
Pro Tip 3/3Safety Risk
Capsize often implies danger to people on board, leading to potential rescue operations.
After the boat capsized, the coast guard initiated a rescue mission.
Pro Tip 1/3Maritime Context
Used specifically for boats and ships, often implying an accident or mishap on water.
The ferry nearly capsized due to the typhoon.
Pro Tip 2/3Unexpected Event
Capsize usually refers to an unexpected or sudden overturning in water.
We watched in horror as the sailboat capsized in the squall.
Pro Tip 3/3Safety Risk
Capsize often implies danger to people on board, leading to potential rescue operations.
After the boat capsized, the coast guard initiated a rescue mission.
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What fear can teach us PIPE...
Let's take a look at the fears that their imaginations were generating as they drifted in the middle of the Pacific. Twenty-four hours had now passed since the capsizing of the ship. The time had come for the men to make a plan, but they had very few options. In his fascinating account of the disaster,
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Safari Live - Day 65 PIPE...
we didn't capsize well they didn't put a hole through the hippo oh well through the boat one hippo I've got a very big headache cuz he decided he was very strong and he attacked a stainless steel Braj and cam was sick and best with a headache I'm sure okay well we said yeah and enjoy the view of
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Five fingers of...
Before we discuss all five of these processes, we should define evolution. Evolution is simply change in the gene pool over time. But what is a gene pool? And for that matter, what is a gene? Before spending any more time on genetics, let us begin with a story. Imagine that a boat capsizes,
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Bilbo the Lifeguard Dog...
capsized and the men thrown up into the sea they would have then two or three of these dogs on the mothership that they let go and they'd dive into the sea swim over to where the men were and they would drag them back to the mothership so it's a natural thing within these
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The surprising thing I...
and the spray from the breaking crests was blown horizontally like snow in a blizzard. If we didn't sail fast enough, we'd be engulfed by that storm, and either capsized or smashed to pieces. We were quite literally hanging on for our lives and doing so on a knife edge.
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Cara E. Yar Khan: The...
has some of the highest white water in the country. And just to be prepared in case we should capsize, we'd practice having me swim through a smaller rapid. And it's safe to say it wasn't glamorous. I took my breath in the wrong part of the wave, choked on river water
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Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...
coming from the leaves elephants they do avoid those kind of trees and apart from that elephant don't like the chillies they don't like the pepper chilies because of what is called a capsize in molecule a molecule which gives a chilli
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A Mysterious Sinking PIPE...
mechanical failure and that the crew was abandoning the vessel into life rafts. It depended what the mechanical failure was. Ships that lose power in heavy seas can capsize as they drift broadside to the current.
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How we're saving one of...
any sign of danger, every sign of life. Now imagine millions of sweat bees choking the air around you, flesh-eating bacteria, the constant threat of a landmine going off or an unseen hippo capsizing your mokoro.
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A boat carrying 500...
just below where she and Bassem were sitting. And she heard how they yelled, "Let the fish eat your flesh!" And they started laughing as the boat capsized and sank.
Video examples
What fear can teach us PIPE...
Let's take a look at the fears that their imaginations were generating as they drifted in the middle of the Pacific. Twenty-four hours had now passed since the capsizing of the ship. The time had come for the men to make a plan, but they had very few options. In his fascinating account of the disaster,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 65 PIPE...
we didn't capsize well they didn't put a hole through the hippo oh well through the boat one hippo I've got a very big headache cuz he decided he was very strong and he attacked a stainless steel Braj and cam was sick and best with a headache I'm sure okay well we said yeah and enjoy the view of
Video examples
Five fingers of...
Before we discuss all five of these processes, we should define evolution. Evolution is simply change in the gene pool over time. But what is a gene pool? And for that matter, what is a gene? Before spending any more time on genetics, let us begin with a story. Imagine that a boat capsizes,
Video examples
Bilbo the Lifeguard Dog...
capsized and the men thrown up into the sea they would have then two or three of these dogs on the mothership that they let go and they'd dive into the sea swim over to where the men were and they would drag them back to the mothership so it's a natural thing within these
Video examples
The surprising thing I...
and the spray from the breaking crests was blown horizontally like snow in a blizzard. If we didn't sail fast enough, we'd be engulfed by that storm, and either capsized or smashed to pieces. We were quite literally hanging on for our lives and doing so on a knife edge.
Video examples
Cara E. Yar Khan: The...
has some of the highest white water in the country. And just to be prepared in case we should capsize, we'd practice having me swim through a smaller rapid. And it's safe to say it wasn't glamorous. I took my breath in the wrong part of the wave, choked on river water
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...
coming from the leaves elephants they do avoid those kind of trees and apart from that elephant don't like the chillies they don't like the pepper chilies because of what is called a capsize in molecule a molecule which gives a chilli
Video examples
A Mysterious Sinking PIPE...
mechanical failure and that the crew was abandoning the vessel into life rafts. It depended what the mechanical failure was. Ships that lose power in heavy seas can capsize as they drift broadside to the current.
Video examples
How we're saving one of...
any sign of danger, every sign of life. Now imagine millions of sweat bees choking the air around you, flesh-eating bacteria, the constant threat of a landmine going off or an unseen hippo capsizing your mokoro.
Video examples
A boat carrying 500...
just below where she and Bassem were sitting. And she heard how they yelled, "Let the fish eat your flesh!" And they started laughing as the boat capsized and sank.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Rachael Taylor
Australian Actress
The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
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James Wolcott
American Critic
Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.
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Nathan Outteridge
Australian Athlete
Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
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Adam Grant
American Author
A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
American Businessman
Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.
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Rachael Taylor
Australian Actress
The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
Quote examples
James Wolcott
American Critic
Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.
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Nathan Outteridge
Australian Athlete
Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
Quote examples
Adam Grant
American Author
A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
Quote examples
Joseph B. Wirthlin
American Businessman
Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.
Example 1 of 5
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