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capsise

capsise is the nonstandard spelling of capsize.

Meaning of capsize

Verb

capsize (third-person singular simple present capsizes, present participle capsizing, simple past and past participle capsized)

  1. (intransitive) To overturn.
    • Baby, I think I'm capsizing / The waves are rising and rising1982, “Sexual Healing”, performed by Marvin Gaye
  2. (transitive) To cause (a ship) to overturn.
    • But what if carrying sail capsize the boat?1819–1824, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London, (please specify |canto=I to XVII)
  3. (intransitive) To deform under stress.
    • There are even cases where a totally different knot may result when carelessly pulled. Tie the Granny Knot around any object and pull one end, and it will capsize into Two Half Hitches.1944, Clifford Warren Ashley, The Ashley Book of Knots, page 19

See all 4 meanings of capsize

Forms of capsise

third-person singular presentcapsises
present participlecapsising
past participlecapsised
pastcapsised

Origin of capsise

Hypercorrection by analysis of capsize as caps + -ize, which is then converted to the British English -ise.

Questions about capsise

What is capsise the nonstandard spelling of?
Capsise is the nonstandard spelling of capsize.

Words near capsise in the dictionary

  1. capsidiol
  2. capsidless
  3. capsids
  4. capsinoid
  5. capsinoids
  6. capsise
  7. capsised
  8. capsises
  9. capsising
  10. capsite
  11. capsites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: capsise (page history and authors); capsize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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