zoned out

verb

past tense of zone out
as in hacked (around)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for zoned out
  1. wound down
  2. loosened up
  3. chilled out
  4. vegetated
  5. idled
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  • As Mipcom, the annual content market and conference in Cannes, wound down on Wednesday, Lucy Smith, the event’s chief, revealed attendance figures for this year’s edition.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026
  • All3Media International has since been wound down as a brand and Banijay Rights will be shopping Maya in France this year.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of wound down
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  • Navy, white and red carried throughout the lineup, which looked back to the designer’s signature ’90s prep but loosened up.
    — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Eventually, Cease loosened up enough to mow through many Red Sox.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 26 July 2026
Definition of loosened up
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  • Common skin changes in the cooler months Sure, the heat has chilled out, literally and figuratively, but cold, dry weather can be just as stressful for your skin.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 14 May 2026
  • North chilled out on the couch with her baby bro.
    — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026
Definition of chilled out
Verb
  • Installing and maintaining them can get expensive, however, and some fire-prone areas are too thickly vegetated or rainy to benefit from their surveillance.
    — K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 20 July 2026
  • We were parked alongside a remote and heavily vegetated waterway called Furlong Creek, which was the site of another one of Johnson’s experiments.
    — Katie Thornton, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
Definition of vegetated
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  • Others idled at the edge of the firelight while the red lights of a surveillance blimp blinked over the mountains to the east.
    — Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2026
  • The Brampton Assembly Plant, which was previously slated to build the Jeep Compass before Stellantis moved the product out of Canada in 2025 to avoid tariffs, has been idled since 2023.
    — Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of idled
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“Zoned out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zoned%20out. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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