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All keel synonyms

keel
K k

verb keel

  • capsize — If you capsize a boat or if it capsizes, it turns upside down in the water.
  • keel over — Nautical. a central fore-and-aft structural member in the bottom of a hull, extending from the stem to the sternpost and having the floors or frames attached to it, usually at right angles: sometimes projecting from the bottom of the hull to provide stability.
  • turn upside down — invert
  • upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
  • overturn — to destroy the power of; overthrow; defeat; vanquish.
  • turn over — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
  • tip over — to cause to assume a slanting or sloping position; incline; tilt.
  • roll over — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
  • tip — Eugene (Gladstone) 1888–1953, U.S. playwright: Nobel prize 1936.
  • upturn — to turn up or over: The farmer upturned clumps of sod with his spade.
  • fall — to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
  • collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
  • drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • faint — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
  • founder — a person who founds or casts metal, glass, etc.
  • pitch — to smear or cover with pitch.
  • plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
  • slump — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
  • swoon — to faint; lose consciousness.
  • topple — to fall forward, as from having too heavy a top; pitch; tumble down.
  • tumble — to fall helplessly down, end over end, as by losing one's footing, support, or equilibrium; plunge headlong: to tumble down the stairs.
  • black out — If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
  • go down — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • pass out — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.

noun keel

  • hull — Cordell [kawr-del,, kawr-del] /ˈkɔr dɛl,, kɔrˈdɛl/ (Show IPA), 1871–1955, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1933–44; Nobel Peace Prize 1945.
  • bilge — The bilge or the bilges are the flat bottom part of a ship or boat.
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