SWOONING
faint, light, swooning, light-headed, lightheaded
(adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness; “suddenly felt faint from the pain”; “was sick and faint from hunger”; “felt light in the head”; “a swooning fit”; “light-headed with wine”; “light-headed from lack of sleep”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
swooning
present participle of swoon
Noun
swooning (plural swoonings)
A swoon or faint.
People of weak nerves or delicate constitutions are liable to swoonings or fainting fits.
Source: Wiktionary
Swoon"ing, a. & n.
Definition: from Swoon, v.
– Swoon"ing*ly, adv.
SWOON
Swoon, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swooned; p. pr. & vb. n. Swooning.] Etym: [OE. swounen, swoghenen, for swo, fr. swo to sigh deeply, to droop, AS. swogan to sough, sigh; cf. geswogen senseless, swooned, geswowung a swooning. Cf. Sough.]
Definition: To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away. The sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. Lam. ii. 11. The most in years . . . swooned first away for pain. Dryden. He seemed ready to swoon away in the surprise of joy. Tatler.
Swoon, n.
Definition: A fainting fit; syncope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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