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
  • Instead, three of those whales have died, along with another Shedd whale that did not come from Marineland.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
  • This was a place that had died, a place where life no longer existed.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 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
  • 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
Definition of passed out
Verb
  • The county has failed to provide evidence that the quarry owner’s reclamation plan wouldn’t substantially interfere with animals’ movement, wrote Kim Freeburn, an environmental program manager with the department.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
  • In the end, Michigan had one more shot to make a stop to seal the win and failed.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of failed
Verb
  • Pries’s suggestion, known as the inverse Galois problem, was inspired by the work of the 19th-century French mathematician Évariste Galois, who perished after he was wounded in a gun duel at age 20.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
  • As a result, more people have now died of environmental illnesses that followed the September 11 attacks than perished during the collapse of the towers that day.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of perished
Verb
  • Under the memorandum of understanding the two sides signed in June that collapsed within days, Iran's nuclear program was meant to be discussed over a 60-day period.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The area suffered thousands of manufacturing job losses as the automobile industry collapsed and jobs were sent overseas.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 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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“Conked (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conked%20%28out%29. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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