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swoon
[swoon]
verb (used without object)
to faint; lose consciousness.
to enter a state of hysterical rapture or ecstasy.
The teenagers swooned at the sight of the singing star.
noun
a faint or fainting fit; syncope.
swoon
/ ɳː /
verb
a literary word for faint
to become ecstatic
noun
an instance of fainting
Other 51Թ Forms
- swooningly adverb
- unswooning adjective
- ˈɴǴDzԾԲ adjective
- ˈɴǴDzԾԲly adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of swoon1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of swoon1
Example Sentences
The month is just four days old, but for the Dodgers the June swoon is already getting old.
Skarsgård was so compelling as Eric Northman in "True Blood" that he had people all over the world swooning and dreaming to be friends with a vampire.
The soundtrack swoons with the ’60s pop ballad “I Will Follow Him.”
“Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is the kind of warm romance that will make any bookish dreamer swoon, as a thoroughly modern woman with old-fashioned ideas about love experiences her own Austenesque tumble.
The Dodgers have now lost three consecutive series for the first time since last April, when they endured a similar early-season swoon.
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