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swoon

[swoon]

verb (used without object)

  1. to faint; lose consciousness.

  2. to enter a state of hysterical rapture or ecstasy.

    The teenagers swooned at the sight of the singing star.



noun

  1. a faint or fainting fit; syncope.

swoon

/ ɳː /

verb

  1. a literary word for faint

  2. to become ecstatic

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. an instance of fainting

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • swooningly adverb
  • unswooning adjective
  • ˈɴǴDzԾԲ adjective
  • ˈɴǴDzԾԲly adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of swoon1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English (verb) swo(w)nen “to faint,” originally as gerund swowening, swoghning “act of swooning,” ultimately continuing Old English (in compounds) “to rush, overrun, choke”; Middle English (noun) partly derivative of the verb, partly extracted from in (a) swoune, on swoune, alteration of a swoune, aswoune “in a swoon,” as if equivalent to a a- 1 + swoon (noun), but probably continuing Old English ō, past participle of ō “to overcome” ( a- 3 ), or ō (past participle) “senseless, dead”
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of swoon1

Old English ō insensible, past participle of ō (unattested except in compounds) to suffocate
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The month is just four days old, but for the Dodgers the June swoon is already getting old.

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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.

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The soundtrack swoons with the ’60s pop ballad “I Will Follow Him.”

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“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.

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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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