| Passed away |
USA Today Quick |
01 Mar 2026 |
| Went on the fritz |
New York Times |
24 Feb 2026 |
| Perished |
Commuter |
20 Feb 2026 |
| Went out, as a fire |
Thomas Joseph |
02 Feb 2026 |
| Passed on |
USA Today Quick |
03 Jan 2026 |
| Lost power, as a battery |
Newsday |
12 Nov 2025 |
| Ran out of juice |
LA Times Daily |
08 Nov 2025 |
| Lost power, as a battery |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
30 Oct 2025 |
| Quit working |
LA Times Daily |
17 Oct 2025 |
| Perished |
Commuter |
07 Jul 2025 |
| Fizzled out |
Premier Sunday |
06 Jul 2025 |
| Ran out of battery, say |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
05 Jul 2025 |
| Last word of all five verses of "American Pie" |
|
|
| Ran out of gas |
Commuter |
03 Jun 2025 |
| Ran out of juice |
LA Times Daily |
25 May 2025 |
| Changed colour, reportedly. White I suppose (4) |
|
|
| Ran out of battery |
LA Times Daily |
07 Apr 2025 |
| Lost all juice |
|
|
| Broke down |
New York Times |
30 Mar 2025 |
| Stopped living (4) |
|
|
| Conked out |
Eugene Sheffer |
12 Mar 2025 |
| Ceased to live |
|
|
| Went to 0%, as a battery |
New York Times Mini |
26 Dec 2024 |
| Went out, as a fire |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Dec 2024 |
| Conked in (4) |
|
|
| Perished |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Dec 2024 |
| Quit working |
Wall Street Journal |
20 Nov 2024 |
| Ran out of battery |
New York Times |
23 Oct 2024 |
| Ran out of juice |
Wall Street Journal |
31 Aug 2024 |
| Subsided, with "down" |
|
|
| Ran out of juice |
New York Times |
25 Aug 2024 |
| Expired |
USA Today Quick |
18 Aug 2024 |
| Went to 0%, as a phone |
|
|
| Couldn't even anymore |
|
|
| Deceased - that is in Dungeon & Dragons (4) |
|
|
| Ran out of battery |
TV |
12 May 2024 |
| Ran out of battery |
New York Times |
06 May 2024 |
| Ran out of battery |
Universal |
27 Apr 2024 |
| Faded out |
LA Times Daily |
12 Apr 2024 |
| Ceased to be |
|
|
| (I Just) ___ in Your Arms (1986 Cutting Crew hit) |
|
|
| Needed recharging |
Commuter |
29 Feb 2024 |
| Petered out |
LA Times Daily |
21 Feb 2024 |
| Fizzled out |
LA Times Daily |
02 Feb 2024 |
| Went kaput, as a battery |
New York Times |
22 Jan 2024 |
| Lost power, as a battery |
Newsday |
27 Dec 2023 |
| Expired identification returned by top journalist (4) |
|
|
| Ran out of battery, as a smartphone |
|
|
| Got to 0% battery |
USA Today |
11 May 2023 |
| Ran out of juice |
Universal |
27 Apr 2023 |
| Went kaput |
USA Today |
03 Mar 2023 |
| Was mortified, informally |
Universal |
28 Feb 2023 |
| Lost power |
LA Times Daily |
02 Feb 2023 |
| Ran out of juice |
LA Times Daily |
27 Jan 2023 |
| Ran out of battery |
LA Times Daily |
20 Dec 2022 |
| Fizzled out |
New York Times |
01 Nov 2022 |
| Conked out |
Eugene Sheffer |
13 Oct 2022 |
| Laughed and laughed and laughed |
New York Times |
24 Sep 2022 |
| Ran out of battery |
Universal |
10 Sep 2022 |
| Ran out of battery |
Universal |
03 Sep 2022 |
| Went out, as a fire |
Thomas Joseph |
30 Aug 2022 |
| Conked out |
Eugene Sheffer |
06 Apr 2022 |
| Ran out of juice |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Feb 2022 |
| Conked out |
Eugene Sheffer |
28 Jan 2022 |
| ___ down (subsided) |
|
|
| Ran out of battery |
New York Times |
15 Nov 2021 |
| Conked out |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 Nov 2021 |
| Conked out |
Eugene Sheffer |
28 Sep 2021 |
| Lost all juice, as a battery |
|
|
| Stopped working with theologian around Ireland |
|
|
| Conked out |
Universal |
06 Jul 2021 |
| Quit running |
Newsday |
17 Jun 2021 |
| 'I literally ___' (millennial's overstatement) |
New York Times |
11 Jun 2021 |
| Conked out |
Eugene Sheffer |
20 Mar 2021 |
| Ran out of juice |
USA Today |
03 Mar 2021 |
| Ran out of battery |
USA Today |
15 Feb 2021 |
| Fell off, as laughter |
New York Times |
21 Jan 2021 |
| Gambled once Charlie's gone and cashed in his chips |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
08 Jan 2021 |
| Went out, as a fire |
Thomas Joseph |
05 Jan 2021 |
| Subsided, with "down" |
|
|
| Fizzled out |
Newsday |
29 Dec 2020 |
| Ran out of juice |
Wall Street Journal |
21 Dec 2020 |
| Ran out of power |
Universal |
01 Nov 2020 |
| Passed away |
|
|
| Passed away |
|
|
| Went kaput |
USA Today |
30 Aug 2020 |
| Expired |
|
|
| Ran out of juice |
LA Times Daily |
20 May 2020 |
| Ran out of juice |
|
|
| Conked out |
LA Times Daily |
18 May 2020 |
| Conked out |
|
|
| Lost power, as batteries |
Newsday |
25 Mar 2020 |
| Conked out |
USA Today |
15 Oct 2019 |
| Went pffft! |
New York Times |
06 Sep 2019 |
| Stopped running |
USA Today |
05 Sep 2019 |
| Didn't make it through committee, as a bill |
LA Times Daily |
24 Aug 2019 |
| Didn't make it through committee, as a bill |
|
|
| Five ducks plunged into water and perished |
|
|
| Ran out of battery, say |
|
|
| Didn't make it through committee, as a bill |
|
|
| Stopped running |
|
|
| Conked out |
|
|
| Conked out |
|
|
| Went pffft! |
|
|
| Subsided, with ''down'' |
Newsday |
29 Nov 2018 |
| Stopped working |
LA Times Daily |
16 Nov 2018 |
| Stopped working |
|
|
| Conked out |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Sep 2018 |
| Word on a gravestone |
New York Times |
06 Sep 2018 |
| Ran out of juice |
New York Times |
20 Aug 2018 |
| Stopped functioning |
|
|
| Stopped working and fixed when touring Spain |
|
|
| Ran out of juice |
|
|
| Went kaput |
|
|
| Word on a gravestone |
|
|
| Ran out of juice |
|
|
| Conked out |
|
|
| Stopped working |
|
|
| Expired |
Universal |
17 Dec 2017 |
| Broke down |
New York Times |
27 Oct 2017 |
| Stopped working |
New York Times |
05 Oct 2017 |
| Finally went and acted after taking tablet |
|
|
| Went kaput |
New York Times |
10 Jul 2017 |
| One-liner, part 2 |
|
|
| One-liner, part 2 |
LA Times Daily |
16 Jun 2017 |
| Called out everyone and departed |
|
|
| Fizzled out |
|
|
| Fizzled out |
LA Times Daily |
12 Apr 2017 |
| Ceased living |
Universal |
26 Mar 2017 |
| Ceased living |
|
|
| Stopped working |
|
|
| Broke down |
|
|
| Expired |
|
|
| One-liner, part 2 |
|
|
| Fizzled out |
|
|
| Went kaput |
|
|
| Conked out |
Premier Sunday |
09 Oct 2016 |
| Went out, as a fire |
Universal |
07 Sep 2016 |
| Went on the fritz |
New York Times |
25 Jun 2016 |
| Quit running |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Jun 2016 |
| Didn't make it |
New York Times |
09 Jun 2016 |
| Went kaput |
Universal |
19 Apr 2016 |
| Kicked the bucket |
|
|
| Passed on stamp duty to begin with |
The Telegraph Toughie |
12 Feb 2016 |
| Didn't make it |
|
|
| Went out, as a fire |
|
|
| Gave out |
|
|
| Went on the fritz |
|
|
| Expired |
|
|
| Lost power |
Eugene Sheffer |
28 Dec 2015 |
| Went out |
|
|
| Went out, as a fire |
Newsday |
18 Oct 2015 |
| Ceased to exist |
The Times Concise |
24 Jul 2015 |
| Went out, as a fire |
|
|
| Stopped working |
|
|
| Quit working |
|
|
| Was incredibly embarrassed, in slang |
|
|
| Quit running |
|
|
| Diminished (with "down") |
|
|
| Quit running |
|
|
| Was overcome with embarrassment, in slang |
|
|
| Went kaput |
|
|
| Fizzled out |
|
|
| Croaked |
|
|
| Conked out, as an engine |
|
|
| Stopped running |
|
|
| Was mortified, hyperbolically |
|
|
| Colour reportedly had faded |
|
|
| "I literally ___!" (embarrassed teen's hyperbole) |
|
|
| Flopped as a stand-up |
|
|
| Went out, as a fire |
|
|
| Gave up the ghost |
|
|
| Failed at stand-up |
|
|
| Tombstone word |
|
|
| Morbid Alice in Chains song |
|
|
| Fizzled out |
|
|
| Fell flat |
|
|
| Quit running |
|
|
| Burned out |
|
|
| Quit running |
|
|
| Ran out, as a battery |
|
|
| Faded in the stretch |
|
|
| Stopped working |
|
|
| "(I Just) ___ in Your Arms Tonight" |
|
|
| Faded in the stretch |
|
|
| Conked out |
|
|
| Went out |
|
|
| Ran out, as a battery |
|
|
| Fizzled out |
|
|
| Gave up the ghost |
|
|
| Fizzled out |
|
|
| Stopped running |
|
|
| Went out, as a fire |
|
|
| Stopped running |
|
|
| Went kaput |
|
|
| Stopped working, as a car |
|
|
| Went kaput |
|
|
| Bit the dust |
|
|
| Diminished, with "down" |
|
|
| Diminished, with "down" |
|
|
| Gave out |
|
|
| Ran out of juice |
|
|
| Went kaput |
|
|
| Gave out, as a battery |
|
|
| Went over like a lead balloon |
|
|
| Conked out, as an engine |
|
|
| Laid an egg at The Improv |
|
|
| Didn't get a single laugh |
|
|
| Fizzled out |
|
|
| Subsided (with "down") |
|
|
| Cashed in, so to speak |
|
|
| Conked out |
|
|
| Subsided, with "down" |
|
|
| Fizzled out |
|
|
| Went out, as a fire |
|
|
| Tombstone word |
|
|
| "They ___ With Their Boots On" (1941 film) |
|
|
| Went out |
|
|
| Bombed, as a stand-up comic |
|
|
| Lost power, as an engine |
|
|
| Conked out |
|
|
| Bit the dust |
|
|
| Fell flat |
|
|
| Went kaput |
|
|
| Subsided, with "down" |
|
|
| Lost power, as an engine |
|
|
| Bought the farm |
|
|
| Sputtered and stopped |
|
|
| Lost power |
|
|
| Conked out, as an engine |
|
|
| Stopped working, as an engine |
|
|
| Kicked the bucket |
|
|
| Conked out |
|
|
| Suffered, as from boredom |
|
|
| "They ___ With Their Boots On" (1941) |
|
|
| Suffered, as from boredom |
|
|
| Subsided, with "down" |
|
|
| Stopped working |
|
|
| Stopped running |
|
|
| Stopped running |
|
|
| Went pffft |
|
|
| Conked out, as a car |
|
|
| Fizzled out |
|
|
| Faded away |
|
|
| Conked out |
|
|
| Tombstone word |
|
|
| Bought the farm |
|
|
| Lost power |
|
|
| Stopped |
|
|
| Conked out, as a car |
|
|
| Bombed, theatrically |
|
|
| Didn't get a single laugh |
|
|
| Stopped, as a motor |
|
|
| Lost vitality |
|
|
| Fizzled |
|
|
| Was left on base |
|
|
| Faded away |
|
|
| Perished |
|
|
| "She should have ___ hereafter": Macbeth |
|
|
| ___ away (faded out) |
|
|
| Subsided, with "down" |
|
|
| Became extinct |
|
|
| Disappeared |
|
|
| Faded out |
|
|
| Withered. |
|
|
| Vanished. |
|
|
| Was put out stealing: Baseball. |
|
|
| Was left on base: Baseball slang. |
|
|
| Came to an end. |
|
|
| Sank. |
|
|
| What S. Grundy did on Saturday. |
|
|
| Turned up one's toes |
|
|
| Passed on |
|
|
| Ceased. |
|
|
| Faded away. |
|
|
| "I literally ___" |
|
|
| Languished. |
|
|
| Expired. |
|
|
| Stopped. |
|
|