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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With that the lords and the company round With a hearty laughter were ready to swound; At last said the lords, "Full well we may see, The bride and the bridegroom's beholden to thee."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
She was near falling in a swound when she saw this, and wrung her hands and cried out with her Saviour, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me!"
From Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 by Meinhold, Wilhelm
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
I conceited I was just goin' to swound; and he looked sa straight at me, like a ghost.”
From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
Then the prisoner was removed, and, so far as I saw, he was in a swound, and the Court broke up.
From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories by James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
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