swound

[ swound, swoond ]

verb (used without object)

, Archaic.

1. swoon.

swound

/ swaʊnd /

noun

1. an archaic or dialect word for swoon

Word History and Origins

Origin of swound¹

1400–50; late Middle English swounde (v.), variant (with excrescent d ) of swoune to swoon

Example Sentences

When my child heard this, she gave a cry of joy, and fell back in a swound with her head against the wall.

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A silence that was like a swound fell on the instant, and the light within went out at a puff.

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I poured out my tale at one breath and in one sentence, and when it ended my mother was in her swound.

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Hereupon my poor child was torn from me, and I fell in a swound upon the steps.

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