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CONK

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal term for the nose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("conk" is a kind of...):

nose; olfactory organ (the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Derivation:

conk (hit, especially on the head)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain

Synonyms:

conk; faint; pass out; swoon

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

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

black out; pass out; zonk out (lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Example:

The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)

die (suffer or face the pain of death)

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

abort (cease development, die, and be aborted)

asphyxiate; stifle; suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)

buy it; pip out (be killed or die)

drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating)

predecease (die before; die earlier than)

famish; starve (die of food deprivation)

fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt)

succumb; yield (be fatally overwhelmed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Hit, especially on the head

Example:

The stranger conked him and he fainted

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody with something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue conk the movie

Derivation:

conk (informal term for the nose)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Come to a stop

Example:

The car stalled in the driveway

Synonyms:

conk; stall

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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

halt; stop (come to a halt, stop moving)

Domain category:

driving (the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

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