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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
capsize .
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Examples
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An early Tex Avery effort, âI Wanna Be a Sailorâ (1936), has a young belligerent parakeet whose dreams of being a buccaneer are literally sunk when his barrel boat capsizes in a pond storm.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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April 6: A boat of up to 300 people capsizes off Lampedusa.
Libyan Officials Profit From Migrants Richard Boudreaux 2011
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Weighing a scant 21 ⁄ 2 pounds, it is the ultimate breakdown .22, with the action and barrel unscrewing to fit inside the ABS synthetic buttstock, which floats in case your canoe capsizes.
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Emerging from a sudden and monstrous typhoon which nearly capsizes the ship, Ahab glimpses at last the monster that has haunted his very existence, the leviathan of the deep, Moby Dick!
Marvel Comics Solicitations for May 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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I tied the distress beacon to my life vest and I went through six more capsizes that day without setting off my beacon.
Tori McClure talks about rowing across the Atlantic Ocean, a story she records in Pearl in the Storm 2010
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The hovercraft costs $60 each way and capsizes from time to time, but is considered "reliable."
Glimpses: Freetown, Sierra Leone, August, 2008 Zack O'Malley Greenburg 2011
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Actually, the danger for a vessel on the open sea is not that it capsizes because of the waves, but that its cargo shifts or that it fills up with water when the waves break over it.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Audio: Shipping forecast capsizes England's Ashes win
US tells Twitter to hand over WikiLeaks supporter's messages 2011
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Actually, the danger for a vessel on the open sea is not that it capsizes because of the waves, but that its cargo shifts or that it fills up with water when the waves break over it.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Forty-eight migrants are saved but around 200 are still missing after their boat capsizes off Italian island of Lampedusa.
Boatload of Migrants Fleeing Libya Lost at Sea Stacy Meichtry 2011
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