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Drown vs Capsize - What's the difference?

drown | capsize |

As verbs the difference between drown and capsize

is that drown is to be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation while capsize is to overturn.

drown

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation.
  • To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
  • To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
  • To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; — said especially of sound; usually in the form "to drown out".
  • * Sir J. Davies
    • most men being in sensual pleasures drowned
  • * Addison
    • My private voice is drowned amid the senate.
  • To lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass.
    • ''The CIA gathers so much information that the actual answers it should seek are often drowned in the incessant flood of reports, recordings, satellite images etc.

    Derived terms

    * drowned * drowner * drowning * drown one's sorrows * drown out

    Synonyms

    * (overwhelm) flood

    References

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs

    capsize

    English

    Verb

  • (nautical) To overturn.
  • (nautical) To cause (a ship) to overturn.
  • * Byron
    • But what if carrying sail capsize the boat?

    Synonyms

    * keel over * turn turtle

    Related terms

    * capsized * capsizer

    References

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