swound
Americanverb (used without object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of swound
1400–50; late Middle English swounde (v.), variant (with excrescent d ) of swoune to swoon
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With that the lords and the company round With hearty laughter were ready to swound.
From A Bundle of Ballads by Henry Morley
Take heed Sir, she may chance to swound again.
From The Scornful Lady by John Fletcher
Swowne, i, 41, heavy sleep; ix, 52, swoon; swound, v, 19.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
Sir Launfal awoke as from a swound: 'The Grail in my castle here is found!
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
I conceited I was just goin' to swound; and he looked sa straight at me, like a ghost.”
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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