swoon

Definitions


[swuːn], (Verb)

Definitions:
- faint, especially from extreme emotion
(e.g: Frankie's mother swooned and had to be helped to the headmaster's office)

- be overcome with admiration, adoration, or other strong emotion
(e.g: you can have them swooning over you with a few well-placed words)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English: the verb from obsolete swown ‘fainting’, the noun from aswoon ‘in a faint’, both from Old English geswōgen ‘overcome’


[swuːn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an occurrence of fainting
(e.g: I fell down in a swoon)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English: the verb from obsolete swown ‘fainting’, the noun from aswoon ‘in a faint’, both from Old English geswōgen ‘overcome’




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