Swoon

Noun

 * 1) A faint.
 * 2) *1897,, Chapter 21
 * "I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon. How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!"
 * 1) An infatuation

Verb

 * 1)  to faint, to lose consciousness
 * 2) to be overwhelmed by emotion (especially infatuation)

Derived terms

 * swooningly

Synonyms

 * black out, faint, lose consciousness, pass out

Thesaurus
KO, black out, blackout, catalepsy, catatonia, catatony, coma, crap out, die away, drop, drown, encephalitis lethargica, faint, fall senseless, gray out, grayout, high, kayo, keel over, knockout, lethargy, lipothymia, lipothymy, narcohypnosis, narcolepsy, narcoma, narcosis, narcotic stupor, narcotization, nirvana, nirvana principle, nod, nothingness, oblivion, obliviousness, pass out, sedation, semiconsciousness, senselessness, shock, sleep, sleeping sickness, sopor, stupor, succumb, syncope, thanatosis, trance, unconsciousness

Etymology
From swownen:, swonen:, and  aswoune:, both ultimately from  geswogen:, past participle of swogan: (compare  aswogan:), from, from. Cognate with swogen:,  zwoegen:,  dialectal søgja:. More at.

Noun

 * Dutch: bezwijming
 * Portuguese: desmaio
 * Russian: обморок, потеря сознания


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Verb

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 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: падать в обморок, терять сознание
 * Spanish: desmayarse, desvanescerse
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