The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DIES which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2025.
Stops working crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DIES | 53 % | 4 |
| RESTS | 20 % | 5 |
| RETIRES | 7 % | 7 |
| ENDS | 7 % | 4 |
| CONKSOUT | 7 % | 8 |
| FAILS | 7 % | 5 |
Why may DIES be the right solution?
The word "dies" can mean to stop working or functioning, making it the right solution for the clue "Stops working."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Stops working
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- breaks
- malfunctions
- ceases
- halts
- amylase
- brakes
- foot
- hard
- stalls
- stop
- acts
- buck
Crossword Answer definitions
DIES verb- To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- To yearn intensely.
- To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- (of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
- (of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
- Any small cubical or square body.
- A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
- Any hue, color, or blee.
- To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result DIES
- Stamping devices
- Taps' partners
- __ laughing (cracks up)
- Buys the farm
- Goes the way of all flesh
- Becomes powerless
- Coin stampers
- Runs out of juice
- Loses in a videogame, often
- Conks out
More clues leading to the result RESTS
- Musical breathers
- Takes five
- Musical stops
- Quiet moments
- Sheet music symbols
- Takes a breather
- Takes a siesta
- Takes a break
- Pauses
- Stops playing
More clues leading to the result RETIRES
- Hits the hay
- Calls it a career
- Stops working
- Heads for bed
- Stops using
- Goes into seclusion.
- Leaves.
- Withdraws.
- Departs.
- Puts out, in baseball.
More clues leading to the result ENDS
- Comes to a conclusion
- Loose ____
- Means justification, to some
- Odds' partner
- Pulls the plug on
- Remnants
- Shakespeare title word
- Some are split
- These may be tight or split
- They can be tight or loose