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Meanings of swoon (swooned) in English

Portuguese
desfalecimento
Catalan
desmai
Wikidata

A spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain.

        desfalecimento
        Portuguese
        desfalecer
        Catalan
        esmorteir-se

        Pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain.

              desfalecer
              Usage of swooned in English
              1
              Cynthia clung to me in terror, and nearly swooned in my arms.
              The Child of the Dawn
              2
              With these words she swooned away in the middle of the room.
              The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 2 (of 5)
              3
              Nat almost swooned, and then she was past him without a word.
              Runemarks
              4
              She felt sure that her sister had secretly swooned over the gesture.
              Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
              5
              A botanist would have swooned with joy at the material all about.
              Operation: Outer Space
              6
              She was so unutterably beautiful that he almost swooned away in ecstacy.
              The Laughing Prince: Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales
              7
              Some time during the slow, torturing ride through the forest she swooned.
              Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
              8
              I lay prone upon the floor, and knew that I had swooned.
              Dreams and Dream Stories
              9
              And with these words the old gypsy swooned in Eddie Martin's arms.
              Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2
              10
              I swooned at the letter sent from Frederick Wentworth to Anne Elliot.
              The Guardian
              11
              All of us girls swooned over him; it was impossible not to.
              The life you've imagined
              12
              Laura had swooned, and her fall had been remarked by the gondoliers.
              Prince Eugene and His Times
              13
              But the intense nausea overcame me, so that I all but swooned.
              The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
              14
              But suddenly he swooned and fell and his consciousness went from him.
              King Arthur's Knights / The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls
              15
              Schenck tells of a man who swooned at the sight of pork.
              Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
              16
              While he was doing this I suppose that I slept or swooned.
              Ayesha, the Return of She
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              Swooned through the time
              Swooned across language varieties
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