KEELED (OVER) Synonyms: 12 Similar and Opposite Words

keeled (over)

verb

past tense of keel (over)

as in fainted

to lose consciousness I swear I'll keel over if you make me dissect a frog

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That is the night Vásquez was hit in the right ankle by a line drive and later fainted on his way to get X-Rays.

— Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2026
Ahead, see the celebrities who worked at Disney Parks before becoming famous — including one person who fainted on the first day in the costume, and another who quit before they could even get started.

— Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026

Definition of fainted

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By reproducing Campbell’s soup cans and Marilyn Monroe portraits at industrial scale, Warhol collapsed the distinction between commerce and culture, suggesting that mass production and repetition could become a form of value in itself.

— Amy O’Brien, Vogue, 21 July 2026
The country’s power grid collapsed three times this month, while water service, food production, transportation, garbage collection and medical services have been severely disrupted.

— Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026

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Everyone from Ed Sheeran to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell were spotted, as were several Kansas City Chiefs players, many of whom were captured loading into blacked out sprinter vans from a swanky hotel that media and some fans staked out.

— Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
Three pages of the 11-page sentencing submission filing by prosecutors are blacked out.

— Dan Mangan, CNBC, 3 July 2026

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