0 past simple and past participle of capsize
1 to (cause a boat or ship to) turn upside down by accident while on water:
Although the ship of state was not capsized, for a time it appeared uncertain whether the vessel could right itself and set upon its proper course.
While the troops were leaving the transport, two boats capsized, 51 lives being lost.
This type of hovercraft was quite rightly considered a very safe vehicle and it capsized in what might well have been freak conditions.
If there had been, the ship would probably have been unstable and capsized.
Within months the ship had capsized and sunk in deep water and his son was dead.
One has seen reports recently about ships of which the salvage has been attempted, but when they were towed in they capsized.
In time, inevitably the model capsized in the tank.
There is the terrible tragedy of the ship which capsized and which we are reading about today.
