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; 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
They showed me the ’andcuffs, too—the other one did—and he clicked the dratted things on my wrist; and I tell you I believe I nearly went off in a swound!
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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 Thomas Nelson Page
Swowne, i, 41, heavy sleep; ix, 52, swoon; swound, v, 19.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
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 Thomas Hardy
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