Swoon
[swun]
Definition
(v. i.) 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.
(n.) A fainting fit; syncope.
Checker: Mitchell
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Faint, faint away.
n. Syncope, fainting, fainting fit.
Typist: Morton
Definition
v.i. to faint: to fall into a fainting-fit.—n. the act of swooning: a fainting-fit.—Swoond′ed obsolete pa.t. and pa.p. of swoon.—n. Swoon′ing.—adv. Swoon′ingly
Checker: Shelia
Examples
- He must have dropped in his death-swoon--he must have sunk in the place where he was found--just as I got on the roof to break the skylight window. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Yet the cold was merciful, for it was the cold night air and the rain that restored me from a swoon on the stones of the causeway. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And I know not if I slept or waked, or were in a dead swoon, till Mary come in; and I telled her to fetch yo' to me. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But the sickly daze of the swoon made her still miserably faint. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- One wanted to swoon into the by-gone perfection of it all. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And the exquisite pleasure of slowly arresting the boat, in the heavy-soft water, was complete as a swoon. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He falls into a swoon for grief; but submits. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Had the shape approached me I might have swooned. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The girl had swooned. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Oliver nearly swooned after this frightful scene, and was so weak that for an hour or more, he had not the strength to walk. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Near the Béguinage, amidst the stress of flood and gust, and in the perplexity of darkness, you had swooned and fallen. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In a moment more I should certainly have swooned away in his arms, but for an interruption from the outer world, which brought me to myself again. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She swooned with acute comprehension and pleasure. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And, after all, I found their natural smell was much more supportable, than when they used perfumes, under which I immediately swooned away. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- It was only this timely appearance that kept Bella from swooning. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The terrible swooning burden on his mind, the awful swooning, the loss of all his control, was too much for him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And it was their voices which affected Gudrun almost to swooning. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She felt it swooning over her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And then she took the lanterns from him, while he stood swooning with the perfect fire that burned in all his joints. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If a girl, doll or no doll, swoons within a yard or two of a man's nose, he can see it without a perspective-glass. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
Typist: Marion