Synonyms of tanked

tanked 1 of 2

adjective

ˈtaŋ(k)t 

slang

as in drunk

being under the influence of alcohol

we can count on those jerks getting tanked tonight after the game

Synonyms & Similar Words

• drunk
• drunken
• bombed
• fried
• impaired
• wasted
• wet
• gassed
• plastered
• hammered
• blind
• loaded
• lit
• smashed
• ripped
• juiced
• blitzed
• stewed
• blasted
• sloshed
• crocked
• under the influence
• tipsy
• inebriated
• soused
• besotted
• intoxicated
• sozzled
• canned
• boozy
• pickled
• looped
• stoned
• under the weather
• potted
• three sheets in the wind
• cockeyed
• blotto
• inebriate
• oiled
• high
• in the bag
• stinking
• stiff
• squiffed
• wiped out
• lit up
• tight
• sottish
• alcoholic
• tiddly
• pie-eyed
• in one's cups
• dissipated
• rocky
• maudlin
• dopey
• befuddled
• stupefied
• beery
• strung out
• debauched
• crapulous
• dissolute
• bleary-eyed
• dipsomaniacal
• bibulous

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• straight
• dry
• sober
• steady
• level
• temperate
• cool
• abstemious
• teetotal
• abstinent
• clearheaded

tanked

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verb

past tense of tank

as in flopped

to be unsuccessful

her intended comeback movie tanked at the box office, and once again she was relegated to TV guest spots

Synonyms & Similar Words

• flopped
• collapsed
• failed
• folded
• bombed
• struggled
• missed
• cratered
• flunked
• struck out
• foundered
• fell short
• flamed out
• fell flat
• crashed
• declined
• came to grief
• laid an egg
• came up empty
• came a cropper
• washed out
• floundered
• slumped
• died on the vine
• slipped
• skidded
• waned
• fell on one's face
• crumbled
• sank
• imploded
• misfired
• miscarried
• went under
• self-destructed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• went
• delivered
• succeeded
• worked out
• clicked
• went over
• cooked
• flourished
• came off
• prospered
• thrived
• won
• prevailed
• panned out
• triumphed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tanked

Adjective

Because sales of home media almost completely tanked while streaming services were ascendant, many manufacturers of stand-alone players exited the market. — Matt Kamen, Wired News, 29 May 2026

The protests began last week with economic grievances as the Iranian currency, the rial, tanked. — Henry Austin, NBC news, 7 Jan. 2026

CrowdStrike’s stock price predictably tanked after the July 19 outage disrupted various services across the nation, from flights to court dates to hospital appointments. — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024

Verb

He and Fox both got hurt in the same January game, and those injuries tanked any chances the Rangers had of securing a postseason spot. — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Biohaven — The biopharmaceutical company's stock tanked 16% after the Food and Drug Administration imposed a partial clinical hold on an experimental epilepsy treatment, over a potential safety concern that emerged during rodent testing. — Michelle Fox,darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026

Teams have tanked for decades—the controversy has been a part of basketball discourse since at least 1984, when the Houston Rockets were accused of throwing their season to improve their shot at drafting the great center Hakeem Olajuwon. — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2026

Eight months later, the White House’s deal with Maduro’s former vice president risks entrenching the people and policies that tanked the country’s economy in the first place. — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2026

As VideoCardz reports, one user ran it on an RTX 3080 in Deep Rock Galactic and found their performance tanked from around 130 frames per second to just 4fps. — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 31 Aug. 2026

That’s as test scores in math and reading tanked after schools ditched textbooks in favor of screens. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026

The bet is that if choice is what tanked Killian’s enrollment, then maybe choice will reverse the trend. — Austin Horn august 29, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2026

My colleague Paul Egan attended the Michigan GOP convention last Saturday, where there was little mention of the president, whose approval rating has tanked. — Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 29 Aug. 2026