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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But soft I pray you: what, did Caesar swound?
From Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, William
Porredge is poison, they hate a Kitchin as they hate a Counter, and show 'em but a Feather-bed they swound.
From The Scornful Lady by Fletcher, John
Now at these strange voices sounding from under the cloth Hannah was thunderstruck a’most into a swound; and it was just at this time that the horse moved on.
From Life's Little Ironies by Hardy, Thomas
Ole Abe Pike has swound away once, and that was the time.
From Tales from the Veld by Glanville, Ernest
He seemed, when from that swound he woke, A man already touched by Death, As when the stalwart forest oak, Blasted beneath the lightning's stroke Lives on, yet languisheth.
From The Coast of Bohemia by Page, Thomas Nelson
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