capsizes
Tips into water
Capsizes is the third-person singular form of capsize, meaning to overturn in water.
Boats, ships, and canoes capsize when they flip over: The ferry capsizes in rough seas.
The word applies almost exclusively to watercraft, though occasionally used figuratively for sudden, disastrous reversals: One scandal capsizes the whole campaign.
Quick turning motion
- overturnReverse or invalidate
- upendFlip to reverse orientation
- invertReverse position or order
- toppleCause to fall
roll · pitchpole · founder · list · tilt · overbalance · tip · swamp
Hull's structural base
- yachtLarge pleasure vessel
- sailboatWind-propelled watercraft
- dinghySmall auxiliary watercraft
- catamaranDouble-hulled sailing craft
trimaran · hull · buoyancy · starboard · portside · helm · rudder · gunwale
Destroyed vessel at sea
- sinkingFalling through water
- drowningDeath by water inhalation
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- fatalitiesLosses of life
catastrophe · survivors · marooned · adrift · flotsam · jetsam · perilous · loss
Radio emergency signal
- SOSMorse distress code
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
- evacuationRemoval from danger
- lifejacketsWearable flotation devices
lifeboats · coastguard · helicopter · flares · survival · alarms · rescue · swimmers
flip
Quick turning motion
topple · roll · pitchpole · founder · list · tilt · overbalance · tip · swamp · turtle
keel
Hull's structural base
catamaran · trimaran · hull · buoyancy · starboard · portside · helm · rudder · gunwale · beam
shipwreck
Destroyed vessel at sea
fatalities · catastrophe · survivors · marooned · adrift · flotsam · jetsam · perilous · loss · wreckage
mayday
Radio emergency signal
- SOSMorse distress code
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
- evacuationRemoval from danger
lifejackets · lifeboats · coastguard · helicopter · flares · survival · alarms · rescue · swimmers · flotation
- knocks overtips, topples, upends, overturns, bowls over
capsizesrights
Justified claims to freedoms
steadies · stabilizes · balances · holds steady · trims
- capsized boatVessel flipped upside-down
- boat capsized