out cold
Dead to the world
Out cold is a fixed phrase for unconscious: He lay on the ground, out cold, for several minutes.
Incapacitating final blow
- KOVictory by incapacitation
- unresponsiveFailing to react or reply
- faintedLost consciousness briefly
- comatoseDeeply unconscious, unrousable
senseless · limp · inert · smelling salts · revive · come to · stupor · concussion
Unconscious rest state
- slumberLight, restful unconsciousness
- snoringNoisy breathing while asleep
- dozingLightly, briefly unconscious
- nappingSleeping briefly, often midday
dead to the world · fast asleep · sound asleep · deep sleep · REM · dreamland · zonked · exhausted
Incapacitating final blow
referee · haymaker · uppercut · floored · down for the count · TKO · ringside · bout
Without means to resist
- helplessUnable to act independently
- exposedOut in open
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
- incapacitatedMade unable to act
immobilized · at risk · easy target · powerless · endangered · susceptible · unguarded · compromised
knockout
Incapacitating final blow
- KOVictory by incapacitation
- unresponsiveFailing to react or reply
- faintedLost consciousness briefly
comatose · senseless · limp · inert · smelling salts · revive · come to · stupor · concussion · sedated
sleeping
Unconscious rest state
- slumberLight, restful unconsciousness
- snoringNoisy breathing while asleep
- dozingLightly, briefly unconscious
napping · dead to the world · fast asleep · sound asleep · deep sleep · REM · dreamland · zonked · exhausted · crashed
knockout
Incapacitating final blow
count · referee · haymaker · uppercut · floored · down for the count · TKO · ringside · bout · match
defenseless
Without means to resist
- helplessUnable to act independently
- exposedOut in open
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
incapacitated · immobilized · at risk · easy target · powerless · endangered · susceptible · unguarded · compromised · weakened
- incapacitatedunconscious, comatose, paralyzed, disabled, helpless
- sleepsleep, sleeping, nap, doze, slumber
- asleepasleep, fast asleep, deep sleep, sound asleep, snoring
- Knockoutsknockout, KO, TKO, technical knockout, knockout punch
- boxingjab, uppercut, hook, punch, knockout
- mental statesknowledge, conscious, mood, anxious, memory
out coldwide awake
Totally alert and attentive
awake · alert · conscious · up and about · bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
out coldalert
Warning or watchfulness
sharp · on the ball · attentive · vigilant · responsive