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swoon
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[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)
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Origin
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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
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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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