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intransitive verb
swoon
Definition of swoon (Entry 2 of 2)
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Verb
Noun
Synonyms: Verb
black out, conk (out), faint, keel (over), pass out
Synonyms: Noun
daze, dazedness, fog, haze, muddle, spin
Antonyms: Verb
come around, come round, come to, revive
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13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Middle English swounen, probably back-formation from swouning, swowening, from iswowen, aswoune, from Old English geswōgen in a swoon
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