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swoon

[ swoon ]
/ swun /
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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.
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Origin of swoon

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 -swƍgan (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 aa-1 + swoon (noun), but probably continuing Old English āswƍgen, past participle of āswƍgan “to overcome” (see a-3), or geswƍgen (past participle) “senseless, dead”

OTHER WORDS FROM swoon

swoon·ing·ly, adverbun·swoon·ing, adjective
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British Dictionary definitions for swoon

swoon
/ (swuːn) /

verb (intr)
a literary word for faint
to become ecstatic
noun
an instance of fainting
Also (archaic or dialect): swound

Derived forms of swoon

swooning, adjectiveswooningly, adverb

Word Origin for swoon

Old English geswƍgen insensible, past participle of swƍgan (unattested except in compounds) to suffocate
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