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faints
[ feynts ]
noun
- the impure spirit produced in the first and last stages of the distillation of whiskey.
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Example Sentences
A Berlin building locked down after an African woman faints.
Danny suddenly gets visions of bloody elevators and faints, and is looked over by a doctor.
The one is technically termed the strong faints, the other, the weak faints.
His hand shook on Bart's, and Bart thought, If we're lucky, we can get out of the port before he faints dead away.
The young lady recognises him in an instant, and is so much affected by his altered circumstances, that she faints away.
The Master said, He that wants strength faints midway; but thou drawest a line.
And even the aggressive clove curls up and faints when ordered to disguise a mince pie breath.
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