conk out

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verb

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
• Syn:
fail, go bad, give way, die, give out,
go, break, break down
• Derivationally related forms:
breakdown (for: break down), breakable (for: break), failure (for: fail)
• Hypernyms:
change
• Hyponyms:
crash, go down, blow out, burn out, blow,
misfire, malfunction, misfunction
• Verb Group:
die, decease, perish, go, exit,
pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm,
conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak,
snuff it, break
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- These cars won't conk out
2. use up all one's strength and energy and stop working
- At the end of the march, I pooped out
• Syn:
poop out, peter out, run down, run out
• Hypernyms:
tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s