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- capsize (something)
if a boat capsizes or something capsizes it, it turns over in the water （船）翻，倾覆 The boat capsized and sank. 船倾覆沉没了。 Wind pressure on the huge rotors could capsize the ship. 加在巨大转子上的风压可能会使船倾覆。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCapsize is used with these nouns as the subject:- boat
- raft
- ship
- …
Word Originlate 18th cent.: perhaps based on Spanish capuzar ‘sink (a ship) by the head’, from cabo ‘head’ + chapuzar ‘to dive or duck’.