swound

American  

[swound, swoond] / swaʊnd, swund /

verb (used without object)

Archaic.

1. swoon.

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swound British  

/ swaʊnd /

noun

1. an archaic or dialect word for swoon

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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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swound

I asked, for I was greatly bewildered by my swound.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Then just against the Harrow Road I made one desperate bound— A leprous lamp-post and myself Lay mingled in a swound!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891 by Various

Swowne, i, 41, heavy sleep; ix, 52, swoon; swound, v, 19.

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund

With that the lords and the company round With hearty laughter were ready to swound.

From A Bundle of Ballads by Morley, Henry

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