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
Example Sentences
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With that the lords and the company round With hearty laughter were ready to swound; At last said the lords, Full well we may see, The bride and the beggar's beholden to thee.
From English Songs and Ballads by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland
With that the lords and the company round With hearty laughter were ready to swound.
From A Bundle of Ballads by Henry Morley
Had he no where else to swound? a vengeance swound him: Undone, undone, undone: stay, I can lye yet And swear too at a pinch, that's all my comfort.
From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (2 of 10) - the Humourous Lieutenant by Francis Beaumont
Her breath came quick, her blood swirled round; Her senses in a vortex swound.
From Songs and Satires by Edgar Lee Masters
A silence that was like a swound fell on the instant, and the light within went out at a puff.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
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