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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Therefore my Hope arose From out her swound and gazed upon Thy face.
From We Two, a novel by Edna Lyall
Her head fallen as half in swound, hair and knee swept on the ground, She clung wild to stirrup and foot.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sorrow and rage, shame, and his honors pride, Choking his soule, madly compeld him raue, Vntil his rage with vigor did confound His heauie hart; and left him in a swound.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain by Richard Hakluyt
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
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
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