Out of action - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 11/10/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Out of action.

4 letter answer(s) to out of action

DOWN
  1. (American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have four downs to gain ten yards"
  2. (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
  3. away from a more central or a more northerly place; "was sent down to work at the regional office"; "worked down on the farm"; "came down for the wedding"; "flew down to Florida"
  4. becoming progressively lower; "the down trend in the real estate market"
  5. being or moving lower in position or less in some value; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today"
  6. being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth"
  7. bring down or defeat (an opponent)
  8. cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"
  9. drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She kil
IDLE
  1. be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning"
  2. dormant
  3. lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue"
  4. not having a job; "idle carpenters"; "jobless transients"; "many people in the area were out of work"
  5. not in action or at work; "an idle laborer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind"
  6. not in active use; "the machinery sat idle during the strike"; "idle hands"
  7. not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"
  8. run disconnected or idle; "the engine is idling"
  9. silly or trivial; "idle pleasure"; "light banter"; "light idle chatter"
  10. the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling; "the car engine was running at idle"
  11. without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"

14 letter answer(s) to out of action

HORS DE COMBAT
  1. so badly injured as to be unable to continue; "disabled veterans"

6 letter answer(s) to out of action

LAIDUP

9 letter answer(s) to out of action

SIDELINED
  1. remove from the center of activity or attention; place into an inferior position; "The outspoken cabinet member was sidelined by the President"

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Out of action'

"The moon is ___; I have
"___ hands are the devil'
*Quilt filling
*Rejected
9 shed overlooked by hill
A bit of welding up is not working
American wears top out of bed or stuck in it
At leisure
At rest
Avoiding work
Avoiding work; lazy
Barely run, as an engine
Baseless
Bet on a horse that's out of commission
Between assignments
Blue
Blue feathers
Blue feathers (4)
Blue swallow heading south
Blue won, getting embraced by lecturer?
Cash has won and remains holder, reversing plummet in rankings?
Casual
Confined to the periphery
County academic keeps 20
Covered by maid, ledge gathering dust
Crossword direction
Dejected
Depressed
Depressed university teacher drinking whiskey
Descent from treeless upland
Did less? Mostly this
Disinclined towards effort
Do nothing
Doing nothing
Drink in The Feathers?
Elevator button
Elevator direction half t
Empty
Face being lifted out of bed, incapacitated
Face being sick in bed?
Face maybe being confined to bed?
Fallow
Feathers on the floor?
Fish around lake, being at a loose end
Fish round lake doing nothing
Fluff - sorrowful
Frequent Cleese co-star
Frivolous
Frivolous segment of panel discussion given up
Futile - lazy
Going nowhere
Goofing off
Gridiron scoreboard info
Groundless
Having time on one's hand
Hero can be heard in lounge
Home in bed, ill
Hoskins had support cut back on the dole
Hoskins had undersized member? That's unfounded!
I had lake drained: it’s not working
I had left, abandoning newspaper without function
In neutral
Inactive
Inactive, impassive dog lacking exercise, originally
Indolent
Indulged in odd places between jobs?
Ineffectual
Irish county where one goes, in a failed state
Jobless
Jobless indulged from time to time
Just chilling
Just loafing
Just lying around
Just sitting around
Just twiddling one
Just twiddling the thumbs
Keep the engine running when stationary
Kill time
Kind of hands that are "t
Kind of speculation
Kind of talk
Knock about
Knock out of the sky
Lay off
Lazy
Lazy brother abandoning check
Lazy leaving line in fish
Leave in neutral
Lied about being lazy
Lied about being unemployed
Like some chatter
Like some fears
Like some hands
Like some rumors
Like some thoughts
Like some threats
Like the answer to this c
Loafing
Loan lure, maybe
Lounge
Low in spirits
Mark time
Miserable kind of clue this ultimately is
Monty Python's Eric, b. 1943
Mooch about, indulged from time to time
Mothballed
Motionless
Needing work welding elevated brackets
No longer working
No margin to avoid lethality in Lounge
Not active
Not busy
Not doing anything
Not engaged
Not going anywhere
Not in active use
Not in operation
Not in use
Not occupied
Not playing
Not scheduled to compete
Not scheduled to play
Not wanting to work in Madrid, lecturing
Not working
Not working - had to slow consumption in the end
Nothing doing?
Nothing in act is revolting and degraded
Off
Off the job
On break, say
On one's duff
On toast, at a diner
On toast, in diner slang
Out of commission
Out of order
Out of sorts
Out of work
Out-of-work comedian?
Paid less, content to be shirking
Panel discussion about imprisoning unemployed
Party victory, but one unseated is unhappy
Party with odd bits of wine to drink
Pillow filler
Pink-slip
Plan falling short, keeping fifty out of work
Potentially going into sc
Put away
Python stands up during panel discussion
Quote, part 3
Regularly find clues not working
Regularly indulged in lounge
Relegated team getting stuffed
Run at the curb
Run in place
Run while standing
Run without moving
Sad
Said superstar is out of work
See 3
Shallow lake fish goes round
Shelved
Sitting on one's hands
Slacking, paid less - only half
Slothful extremes of island life
Soft feathers
Soft feathers; direction
Soft fine feathers
Some avoid lectures, spend time doing nothing
Something hairy: like this answer!
Sovereign tucked into fish in lounge
Stayed off-green in sickbed
Still
Swallow
Swallow displaying soft feathers
Taking a break from work
Team showing age kept out of game
Temporarily not working
They have nothing to do with Eric introducing elements of a deal?
Throw from university fellow taking wicket
Thumb-twiddling
To begin with, ducks have feathers
Toward the floor
Trifling
Twiddling one's thumbs
Unemployed
Unemployed daughter visits French island
Unemployed Hoskins had beer, but no starter
Unemployed one gets appropriate payment, nothing less
Unemployed paid less at the centre
Unemployed superstar given a hearing
Unemployed superstar, by the sound of it
Unfounded, as gossip
Unhappy condition of fox after goose narrowly escaped?
Unhappy; feathers
Unimportant fish in loch? On the contrary
Unmeaningful
Unoccupied
Unused
Unwell
Useless deli in difficulties
Useless fish in Lake? On the contrary
Wait at the light
Waiting
Wave altered and hit bluff
What a getaway car may be
Without employment, indulged regularly
Women wearing the same navy blue
Work-shy
Work-shy superstar, they say
You might hear someone admired for not working
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