CONK OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conk out mean? 

• CONK OUT (verb)
  The verb CONK OUT has 2 senses:

1. stop operating or functioning

2. use up all one's strength and energy and stop working

  Familiarity information: CONK OUT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONK OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stop operating or functioning

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad

Context example:

her eyesight went after the accident

Hypernyms (to "conk out" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

break (render inoperable or ineffective)

buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "conk out"):

crash; go down (stop operating)

blow; blow out; burn out (melt, break, or become otherwise unusable)

misfire (fail to fire or detonate)

malfunction; misfunction (fail to function or function improperly)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

These cars won't conk out

Sense 2

Meaning:

Use up all one's strength and energy and stop working

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

conk out; peter out; poop out; run down; run out

Context example:

At the end of the march, I pooped out

Hypernyms (to "conk out" is one way to...):

fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary (lose interest or become bored with something or somebody)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s