conk out

1. 1.

   stop operating or functioning

   “The engine finally went”

   “The car died on the road”

   “The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town”

   “The coffee maker broke”

   “The engine failed on the way to town”

   “her eyesight went after the accident”

   Synonymsfailgo badgive waydiegive outgobreakbreak down

   Broaderchange

   Narrowercrashblow outmisfiremalfunction
2. 2.

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

   “At the end of the march, I pooped out”

   Synonymspoop outpeter outrun downrun out

   Broadertire

Questions about conk out

What does conk out mean?

conk out means "stop operating or functioning". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for conk out?

Close synonyms include fail, go bad, give way, die, give out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is conk out a common word?

conk out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.