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Definition of capsizing : of Capsize

Synonyms:

displacing, deranging, disheveling, discomposing, tampering, muddling, scattering, disarranging, jumbling, disturbing, meddling, swirling, whisking, tossing, ruffling, disordering, mislaying, convulsing, troubling, roiling, fermenting, roughening, cluttering, rummaging, mixing up, messing, dislocating, botching, churning, misplacing, confusing, agitating, tumbling, confounding, upsetting, scrambling, rumpling, rippling, hashing, perturbing, whipping, disorganizing, tousling, blurring, mussing

overturning, reversing, inverting, changing, transposing, upturning, upending

Usage examples:

• Linley's career was prematurely closed, for at the age of twenty- two he was drowned through the capsizing of a pleasure- boat. - "Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday", Henry C. Lahee.
• Capsizing the tell- tale lamp, they scattered in the undergrowth like a covey of partridges, Hallam badly wounded in the leg and only able to crawl. - "Sketches of the East Africa Campaign", Robert Valentine Dolbey.
• I stayed behind to manage the heavy sled which was continually capsizing in the rough ice. - "The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers", Francis Rolt-Wheeler.