CONKING (OUT) Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

conking (out)

verb

present participle of conk (out)

as in fainting

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

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as in dying

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

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starting (up)

as in passing (on)

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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Studies of inflight medical events consistently find that the most common onboard complaints are fainting or feeling faint, respiratory symptoms, and gastrointestinal distress — not the dramatic emergencies Hollywood tends to depict.

— Sriman Swarup, STAT, 13 July 2026
Authorities have determined the cause and manner of death of a 45-year-old inmate who died in March after fainting while in custody at the San Diego Central Jail, sheriff’s officials said Tuesday.

— Sydney Brammer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026

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But the risk of dying increases about 2% for every hour that surgery is delayed.

— Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 13 July 2026
Puente ran a boarding house where bodies of former tenants were unearthed in 1988, and she was convicted of killing three people before dying in prison in 2011.

— Ruyuan Li. Summary produced by AI assistance, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026

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Woodside Energy Group — Shares of the Australian oil and gas company jumped more than 7% after Bloomberg News reported , citing people familiar, that Exxon Mobil is checking out possible acquisition targets including Woodside.

— Darla Mercado, CFP®,Fred Imbert, CNBC, 12 June 2026
However, the main activity was not checking out or returning books.

— Molly McCrea, CBS News, 12 June 2026

Definition of checking out

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Rhaenyra is at her happiest finally facing the hungry people of King’s Landing, giving a rousing speech before passing out bread and fruit and grain and other sundries to the smallfolk.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
The previous version of the bill had garnered strong bipartisan support in the 80-person Assembly, passing out of the chamber with 76 votes in favor of it.

— Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026

Definition of passing out

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Of course, some of the rocks were found to have some fiberglass and even carpet remnants on them after crashing through the roof of a house, Jenniskens said.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 15 July 2026
Even after the movie’s distributor Universal released another batch of tickets in June, fans faced crashing websites and hours-long waits online to lock in a screening.

— Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 14 July 2026

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Her sister had been through cervical cancer and two bouts of breast cancer before passing away from the disease.

— Ayren Jackson-Cannady, SELF, 29 May 2026
As well as the uncertainty of being in the final year of his contract, the France international also had to deal with the personal anguish of his father Hamady passing away in January.

— James Pearce, New York Times, 28 May 2026

Definition of passing away

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Plaintiffs alleged that the event promoters were negligent in failing to secure required permits, not providing adequate security or crowd control and misrepresenting the event as safe for families, according to the statement.

— Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026
He was revisited by a vague feeling of physical ineptitude that’d haunted him since childhood; failing to throw the ball properly on sports day at primary school, his father watching.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026

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