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单词 swoon
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
swoon /swun/USA pronunciation   v. [no object]
  1. Pathologyto faint;
    lose consciousness.
  2. to enter a state of hysterical emotion or ecstasy:The teenagers swooned when the rock star walked onto the stage.

n. [countable]
  1. Pathologya faint or fainting fit;
    syncope.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
swoon (swo̅o̅n),USA pronunciation  v.i. 
  1. Pathologyto faint;
    lose consciousness.
  2. to enter a state of hysterical rapture or ecstasy:The teenagers swooned at the sight of the singing star.

n. 
  1. Pathologya faint or fainting fit;
    syncope.
  • 1250–1300; (verb, verbal) Middle English swo(w)nen to faint, origin, originally as gerund, gerundive swowening, swoghning act of swooning, ultimately continuing Old English -swōgan (in compounds) to rush, overrun, choke; (noun, nominal) Middle English, partly derivative of the verb, verbal, partly extracted from in (a) swoune, on swoune, alteration of a swoune, aswoune in a swoon, as if equivalent. to a a-1 + swoon (noun, nominal), but probably continuing Old English āswōgen, past participle of āswōgan to overcome (see a-3), or geswōgen (past participle) senseless, dead
swooning•ly, adv. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
swoon /swuːn/ vb (intransitive)
  1. a literary word for faint
  2. to become ecstatic
n
  1. an instance of fainting

Also (archaic or dialect): swound Etymology: Old English geswōgen insensible, past participle of swōgan (unattested except in compounds) to suffocate

ˈswooning adj
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