Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! When a boat rocks into a lake, it capsizes, just like a boy sitting on a pipe when it suddenly overturns. Anything that spills into a body of water can be called capsized. Sometimes capsized ships can be lifted like a canoe, and sometimes they sink to the bottom of the sea. The origin of the capsizing is uncertain, although it may be related to the Spanish word capuzar, “to sink to the head”. NBC 7 reports that the county medical examiner`s office released the names of the three people who died Sunday after a “heavily overcrowded” boat capsized in the waters off Point Loma. At the tip of each jump, the whales roll or capsize backwards. He was a good swimmer, but he knew very well that if his canoe capsized, he could not hope to survive long in these cold waters. Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your essential guide to English language problems. One is tilted sideways and sinks like a capsized ship, while “Advantages of Isolation” is a prison-shaped tower that looks like a model of a relic of a vanished civilization. Q: Are you trying to overturn the Constitution and deliberately capsize the U.S. economy? The pace became so hot that a small obstacle caused the sled to capsize, causing it to roll down the slope again and again.
Now everyone is hanging on a hair, we could not face the boat and it inevitably has to capsize and be flooded under this foaming comb. Capsizing means tipping over, and this usually happens to boats. Don`t shake the boat, baby, or you might just capsize. They looked like toy ships on dangerous seas – they weighed starboard, fell to port, too far in the bow, sank in the stern – but they did not capsize. Men may refuse the challenge of staring at a ship about to capsize, preferring to wait for a simpler test. Kiv-i-ung, who had never abused the boy, had gone out with the others, but his kayak did not capsize. perhaps the Spanish Capuzar or the Catalan Cadusar to push (the head) underwater Without force, the ship was driven inland towards the rocks, rolling and tilting so uncontrollably that it almost capsized. I am sad to say that Mr. Billings remarked, “Let`s get on the blank and let the whole empty trunk capsize.”