zonking

Suddenly losing consciousness

Zonking is the act of knocking someone out or putting them to sleep, or the process of falling into exhausted unconsciousness.

The word appears most often with "out": The medication zonked me out, I was zonking out on the couch by nine.

Something zonking is powerfully sedating or exhausting.

impact

hitting

Making forceful contact

slamming · bashing · clobbering · walloping · thumping · pounding · slugging · clocking · belting · knocking

exhausting

knackered

British for exhausted

wrecked · demolished · destroyed · flattened · crushed · beaten · battered · bushed · pooped · frazzled

intense

powerful

Having great strength

heavy · extreme · fierce · overwhelming · mind-blowing · stupefying · staggering · devastating · knockout · killer

sleep

crash

Sudden violent impact

collapsed · sprawled · oblivious · gone · unplugged · flatlined

Opposites
consciousness/alertness state

zonkingwaking

Regaining consciousness from sleep

awakening · rousing · coming to · perking up · reviving

manner of transition

zonkingdrifting off

Gradually entering sleep

nodding off · dozing · fading · lulling · drowsing

energy dynamics

zonkingenergizing

Imparting renewed vitality

revving up · powering up · invigorating · activating · charging up

Phrases
Family

zone, ozone, zonal, zonked, zonk, subzone, zonks, rezone

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