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Definition: CAPSIZED |
CAPSIZEDImperative & past participle1. Of Capsize |
Date "CAPSIZED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Failure | Aground, grounded, swamped, stranded, cast away, wrecked, foundered, capsized, shipwrecked, nonsuited; foiled; defeated; struck down, borne down, broken down; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; all up with; ploughed, plowed, plucked. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CAPSIZED |
| English words defined with "CAPSIZED": backwash, broadside ♦ right ♦ wake. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CAPSIZED": Rowboat. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | USS Tennessee (BB-43), at left, alongside the sunken USS West Virginia (BB-48), photographed from the capsized hull of USS Oklahoma (BB-37) on 10 December 1941, three days after the Japanese raid. The mainmast of USS Arizona (BB-39) is visible in the right distance.Credit: NAVY. |  | USS Maryland (BB-46) alongside the capsized USS Oklahoma (BB-37). USS West Virginia (BB-48) is burning in the background.Credit: NAVY. |
 | USS Raleigh (CL-7) is kept afloat by a barge lashed alongside, after she was damaged by a Japanese torpedo and a bomb, 7 December 1941. The barge has salvage pontoons YSP-14 and YSP-13 on board. The capsized hull of USS Utah (AG-16) is visible astern of Raleigh.Credit: NAVY. |  | Photograph of the western side of Ford Island and ships in moorings offshore, taken from a Japanese Navy plane during the attack. Ships are (from left to right): USS Detroit (CL-8); USS Raleigh (CL-7), listing to port after being hit by one torpedo; USS Utah (AG-16), capsized after being hit by two torpedoes; and USS Tangier (AV-8), Japanese writing in the lower left states that the photograph's reproduction was authorized by the Navy Ministry.Credit: NAVY. |
 | USS Delphy (DD-261) capsized and broken in two at Honda Point, California, shortly after she ran aground in a fog during the night of 8 September 1923. USS Nicholas (DD-311), wrecked at the same time, is in the background. Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969.Credit: NAVY. |  | View from Pier 1010, looking toward the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard's drydocks, with USS Shaw (DD-373) -- in floating drydock YFD-2 -- and USS Nevada (BB-36) burning at right, 7 December 1941. In the foreground is the capsized USS Oglala (CM-4), with USS Helena (CL-50) further down the pier, at left. Beyond Helena is Drydock Number One, with USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and the burning destroyers Cassin (DD-372) and Downes (DD-375).Credit: NAVY. |
 | Observes efforts to right the capsized USS Oglala (CM-4) at Pearl Harbor, where she had been sunk during the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid. With him are Rear Admiral William R. Furlong (left), Commandant, Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, and Captain Homer N. Wallin (right), who was in charge of the salvage operations. The photograph was taken in April-May 1942, possibly during the initial righting attempt on 11 April.Credit: NAVY. |  | Lithograph by A. Mayer, Paris, depicting a whaleboat crew from the French Navy brig le Mercure rescuing survivors of the capsized Somers, off Vera Cruz, Mexico. Somers is visible in the right background, on her beam ends.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Line engraving from "The Illustrated London News", 23 January 1847, entitled "Wreck of the American Brig 'Somers'.", depicting Somers on her beam ends after she capsized off Vera Cruz, Mexico, while chasing a blockade runner.Credit: NAVY. |  | Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Maryland. Moored inboard of the USS Oklahoma, which capsized, the 31,500 ton Maryland was damaged slightly and was one of the first ships to rejoin the fleet after the Japanese attack.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Travel | Ecuador | In 1998, four U.S. citizens drowned when a tour boat capsized within the Galapagos Archipelago. (references) |
Worker Rights | Cameroon | In September a boat capsized off the coast of Cameroon carrying an estimated 140 suspected child slaves en route to Gabon. (references) |
Togo | The Government also reported that it detained briefly 55 parents of the children stranded in Cameroon when the boat that was trafficking them to Gabon capsized. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CAPSIZED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 57.89% of the time. "CAPSIZED" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 57.89% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 26.32% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 15.79% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 38 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
capsized | 15 |
boat capsized | 14 |
boat capsized oregon | 6 |
boat capsized in oregon | 3 |
boat capsized fishing | 3 |
boat capsized sail | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CAPSIZED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 覆æ²' (annihilated), 弄翻 (Capsize, Capsizing, upsetting). (various references) | ||||
Finnish | kumollaan (overturned, upside down). (various references) | ||||
French | capotai, capotés, capotée, capotâmes, capotèrent. (various references) | ||||
German | kenterte, gekentert. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | apsizedcay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"CAPSIZED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: capesize, Casazza, corpusized. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CAPSIZED" (pronounced ka"psī'zd) |
| 4 | -s ī' z d | anglicized, circumcised, criticized, downsized, emphasized, excised, exercised, fantasized, hypothesized, metastasized, midsized, ostracized, outsized, politicized, publicized, romanticized, synthesized, undersized, unexercised. |
| 3 | -ī' z d | accessorized, advertised, agonized, aluminized, amortized, analyzed, annualized, antagonized, apologized, authorized, balkanized, brutalized, burglarized, capitalized, caramelized, carbonized, catalyzed, categorized, centralized, characterized, civilized, collateralized, collectivized, colonized, colorized, commercialized, compromised, computerized, containerized, creolized, criminalized, crystallized, customized, decentralized, demilitarized, demobilized, democratized, demonized, demoralized, denationalized, denuclearized, departmentalized, depressurized, deputized, desensitized, destabilized, digitized, disenfranchised, disorganized, dramatized, editorialized, energized, enfranchised, epitomized, equalized, eulogized, familiarized, federalized, fertilized, fictionalized, finalized, formalized, fossilized, galvanized, generalized, globalized, harmonized, hellenized, heroized, homogenized, hospitalized, humanized, hydrolyzed, hypnotized, idealized, idolized, immobilized, immunized, improvised, industrialized, internalized, ironized, itemized, jeopardized, legalized, legitimized, liberalized, lionized, localized, magnetized, marginalized, materialized, maximized, mechanized, memorialized, memorized, mesmerized, militarized, miniaturized, minimized, mischaracterized, mobilized, modernized, monopolized, motorized, nationalized, naturalized, neutralized, nonunionized, normalized, organized, oxidized, paralyzed, pasteurized, patronized, penalized, personalized, plagiarized, polarized, polymerized, popularized, pressurized, prioritized, privatized, professionalized, proselytized, pulverized, radicalized, randomized, rationalized, realized, reauthorized, recapitalized, recognized, regionalized, reorganized, revitalized, revolutionized, rubberized, sanitized, scandalized, scrutinized, securitized, sensitized, serialized, socialized, specialized, stabilized, standardized, sterilized, stigmatized, stylized, subsidized, summarized, supervised, symbolized, sympathized, synchronized, tantalized, televised, terrorized, theorized, traumatized, trivialized, unamortized, unauthorized, undercapitalized, underutilized, unionized, unorganized, unrealized, unrecognized, unsubsidized, unsupervised, urbanized, utilized, vandalized, vaporized, visualized, westernized, winterized. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-p-s-z" | |
-1 letter: capsize. | |
-2 letters: apices, azides, capsid, scaped, spaced, spicae, spiced. | |
-3 letters: acids, adzes, aides, asdic, aside, aspic, azide, cades, cadis, caids, caped, capes, cased, cedis, daces, dazes, dices, epics, ideas, paced, paces, padis, paise, picas, saice, sapid, scape, sepia, sepic, siped, sized, space, spade, spaed, spica, spice, spied. | |
-4 letters: aced, aces, acid, adze, aide, aids. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-p-s-z" | |
+2 letters: capsulized. | |
+3 letters: plasticized, specialized. | |
+5 letters: unspecialized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 50 53 49 5A 45 44 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .--. ... .. --.. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01010000 01010011 01001001 01011010 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A P S I Z E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 0050 0053 0049 005A 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3735505343603938 |
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