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swoon

swoon [ swoon ]


intransitive verb  (past and past participle swooned, present participle swoon·ing, 3rd person present singular swoons)
Definition:
 
1. feel faint with joy: to be overwhelmed by happiness, excitement, adoration, or infatuation

2. fall in faint: to experience a sudden and usually brief loss of consciousness



noun  (plural swoons)
Definition:
 
1. rapture: a condition of overwhelming happiness, excitement, or infatuation

2. loss of consciousness: a sudden and usually brief loss of consciousness

[13th century. Shortening of aswoon< Old English geswōgen "in a swoon," past participle of assumed swōgan "suffocate." Origin ?]

swoon·y adjective
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