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swoon — swooningly, adv. /swoohn/, v.i. 1. to faint; lose consciousness. 2. to enter a state of hysterical rapture or ecstasy: The teenagers swooned at the sight of the singing star. n. 3. a faint or fainting fit; syncope. [1250 1300; (v.) ME swo(w)nen… … Universalium
swound — /swownd, swoohnd/, v.i., n. Archaic. swoon. [1400 50; late ME swounde (v.), var. (with excrescent d) of swoune to SWOON] * * * … Universalium
swoon — v. & n. literary v.intr. faint; fall into a fainting fit. n. an occurrence of fainting. Etymology: ME swoune perh. back form. f. swogning (n.) f. iswogen f. OE geswogen overcome … Useful english dictionary
