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swoon - What does it mean?

Definition of 'swoon'

English

Alternative forms

* swound (archaic)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A faint.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
    • "I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon . How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!"
  • An infatuation

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (dated) to faint, to lose consciousness
  • :* {{quote-book
    • |year=1918 |year_published=2008 |edition=HTML |editor= |author=Edgar Rice Burroughs |title=The Gods of Mars |chapter= citation |genre= |publisher=The Gutenberg Project |isbn= |page= |passage= I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a moment too soon. The girl had swooned . }}
  • to be overwhelmed by emotion (especially infatuation)

    • Derived terms

    * swooningly

    Synonyms

    * (faint) black out, faint, lose consciousness, pass out * (be overwhelmed by emotion)

    Similar to 'swoon'

    swan, seen, sewn, shown, skein, skin, sein, soon, scion, shewn, scan, sheen, swain, shin, sean, shun, sken, sawn, sown, sain, sien, shan, saun, seuen, shoon, seyon, syen, sion, syon, scyon, scioun, scien, scyen, sowen, sewin, sewen, shahin, skean, swown, skain, seawan, sunn