单词 | swoon |
释义 | swoon From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishswoonswoon /swuːn/ verb [intransitive]1 EXCITEDto be extremely excited and unable to control yourself because you admire someone so muchswoon over crowds of teenage girls swooning over pop stars2 old-fashionedUNCONSCIOUS to fall to the ground because you have been affected by an emotion or shock SYN faint —swoon noun [singular]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusswoon• She tried to swoon, feeling she must, but nothing happened, except another kiss, and strange dreadful weakness.• Investors continue to swoon over Cisco, considered one of the dominant vendors of high-end networking equipment.• The nuns did not exactly swoon over me when I volunteered.• Lucy had the decency and zest of a boarding school prefect, the kind the Lower Third would swoon over.swoon over• Everyone from young girls to aged grandmothers swooned over Elvis.Origin swoon (1300-1400) swown “to swoon” ((13-19 centuries)), from Old English geswogen “made sick or unconscious” |
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