verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a boat capsizes/overturns (= turns over in the water )
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Will stood up suddenly and the boat capsized.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A huge wave struck the side of our boat, almost capsizing it.
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People were fighting for places in the lifeboat, and there was a real danger of it capsizing.
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The ship capsized in rough waters with the loss of 208 lives.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And we had to keep our water supply low down, or the risk of capsize would be unacceptable.
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And when - inevitably - you do capsize , you soon learn how to not make the same mistakes again.
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And, of course, if the capsize happened in the wide ocean, then the crew was in real trouble.
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He might as well capsize the dinghy and be done with it.
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One day Prospero commanded a spirit to raise a terrible storm to capsize a passing ship.
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The fragile canoe did not capsize !
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The giant fund-raising event took place on Saturday but the choppy waters caused some competitors to capsize .
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There, in theory, it would be safe and the weight would help stabilise the raft and prevent a capsize .