CONKED (OUT) Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

conked (out)

verb

past tense of conk (out)

as in fainted

to lose consciousness after three days without eating, he simply conked out

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as in died

to stop functioning the engine conked out just as we were approaching the exact middle of nowhere

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started (up)

as in fell

to stop living a list of people whose chief claim to fame is the unusual manner in which they conked out

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Their children, meanwhile, were euphoric about this ghoulish interruption to their day, although some experienced nausea, and the theater kids, who felt things deeply, wept and fainted, or did their best to faint.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026
Allegedly, so many cinema-goers vomited and fainted during the initial screenings of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973) that theatre staff had to hand out smelling salts.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026

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On September 9, the Prince of Wales will represent the British royal family at the funeral of King Harald V of Norway, who died at 89 years old on August 28.

— Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 6 Sep. 2026
Dotson was taken to a hospital and died about nine hours after he was shot.

— Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of died

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The goal came after Furuhashi got loose on a breakaway up the middle of the pitch, only to be felled by New England’s Will Sands in the center of the box, leaving referee Drew Fischer with an easy penalty call.

— Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Mosaic terrazzo floors with a palm motif are nods to both Tiberius’s villas here and the Ethiopian palm that once stood like an icon outside the hotel, which was felled by a storm in the 1960s.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of fell

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On the first day of training camp, Burke passed out note cards to every Texans defensive player as their opening meeting began.

— Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
After a 2-year-old drowned in a backyard swimming pool in July 2025, Fatehi considered filing felony murder charges against his mother, who had passed out from drinking at the time of the accident.

— N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026

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The Cowboys’ roster revamp failed miserably in its debut against Tulsa.

— Manny Navarro, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
The explosion was ultimately blamed on an O-ring that failed in one the shuttle’s solid rocket boosters, allowing a flame to pierce the external fuel tank.

— Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2026

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Not just the 2,977 deaths of innocent, often brave people — the workers trapped in the towers, the first responders who perished in an attempt to rescue them, the passengers aboard United Flight 93 who fought back against the hijackers.

— Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
Timothy Stackpole, who perished while trying to rescue others at the World Trade Center, to stand and accept applause from the crowd.

— Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026

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The machinery that collapsed was a drill rig, which was boring holes for the pilings to support the weight of the supertall skyscraper that will go up on the site.

— Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026
The trip puts him back on the European stage as relations with Washington reel from tariffs, threats and personal attacks since trade talks collapsed.

— Rob Gillies, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

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One lap later, Leclerc crashed out dramatically at Monza’s final corner, causing the race to be suspended and leaving him in need of a precautionary check up at the track’s medical center.

— Luke Smith, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Keating was flying home to California after visiting her family when terrorists linked to al-Qaida crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York.

— Brian Mann, NPR, 10 Sep. 2026

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