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intransitive verb (past and past participle swooned, present participle swoon·ing, 3rd person present singular swoons) |
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1. feel faint with joy: to be overwhelmed by happiness, excitement, adoration, or infatuation
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2. fall in faint: to experience a sudden and usually brief loss of consciousness
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noun (plural swoons) |
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1. rapture: a condition of overwhelming happiness, excitement, or infatuation
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2. loss of consciousness: a sudden and usually brief loss of consciousness
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| [13th century. Shortening of aswoon< Old English geswōgen "in a swoon," past participle of assumed swōgan "suffocate." Origin ?] |
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 swoon·y adjective |
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