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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024swoon /swun/USA pronunciation v. [no object]- Pathologyto faint;
lose consciousness. - to enter a state of hysterical emotion or ecstasy:The teenagers swooned when the rock star walked onto the stage.
n. [countable] - Pathologya faint or fainting fit;
syncope.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024swoon (swo̅o̅n),USA pronunciation v.i. - Pathologyto faint;
lose consciousness. - to enter a state of hysterical rapture or ecstasy:The teenagers swooned at the sight of the singing star.
n. - 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
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