zonk (out)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for zonk (out)
Verb
  • The irregular heartbeat — ventricular fibrillation (v-fib) — prevents blood from pumping to the brain causing a person to faint or sudden cardiac death.
    Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • But Bailey told me that people wouldn’t necessarily faint on a visual.
    Anna Russell, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Millay’s sonnets reckon with the end of love not in a spirit of swooning regret but with brisk, sometimes cynical acceptance.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • This arrangement of justice is true to form for You, which traffics in swooning gestures and cute, tidy outcomes for its protago-villain.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
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“Zonk (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zonk%20%28out%29. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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