conked (out)

verb

past tense of conk (out)
1
as in fainted
to lose consciousness after three days without eating, he simply conked out

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2
as in died
to stop functioning the engine conked out just as we were approaching the exact middle of nowhere

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3
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conked (out)
  1. fainted
  2. died
  3. fell
  4. passed out
  5. failed
  6. perished
  7. collapsed
  8. crashed
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  • The three members invited more than 30 guests and at some point there were approximately more than 600 people outside Maison Estelle, where someone is presumed to have fainted.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The details of Ivester’s murder are so haunting that a juror fainted during Thompson’s trial.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of fainted
Verb
  • Alexei Tsydenov, head of the nearby Republic of Buryatia, said the woman had died from an unspecified form of plague.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Samuel, or Samuil in Bulgarian, was a warrior emperor who battled the Byzantine Empire to expand his kingdom but was ultimately defeated and died shortly afterward in 1014.
    — COSTAS KANTOURIS, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of died
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  • Yet trees that took a millennium to grow can be felled in under an hour.
    — Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Vines are pulled away from fences, and sometimes trees are even felled.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2026
Definition of fell
Verb
  • There was one of Melissa Gorga’s sprinkle cookies ground into the carpet, and there was Kelsey Swanson, passed out under the piano and drooling on the parquet.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of passed out
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  • But this bill has failed in both 2025 and 2026 to pass in Congress.
    — Kent Sepkowitz, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The drone bill has a detailed history as it was passed by the Senate in 2024 but failed on the final night of the legislative session when the state House of Representatives never voted on the measure as time expired.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of failed
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  • Thanks to their efforts, only one car, two Vespas and a motorcycle perished in this flood, Navarrete said.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Hearing that several employees have perished in the Greenland blast, Digger thinks only of salvaging his rig.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of perished
Verb
  • Messi collapsed to the turf as his teammates, delirious, ran to hug him.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Jim Bakker, the pioneering TV evangelist who became a symbol of the glitz and greed of the 1980s when his PTL empire near Charlotte collapsed amid scandals, died Monday.
    — Melissa Rodriguez, Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of collapsed
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  • Here again, actors deploying crypto’s financial heft crashed through boundaries that would have earlier been difficult for artists to circumnavigate without having achieved legitimacy through more conventional pathways in existing hierarchies.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The plane that crashed was built in 1994 and originally went into service as a passenger plane before being converted to carry cargo in 2016, according to the NTSB report.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of crashed
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