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swoon

[swoon] ,
–verb (used without object)
1. to faint; lose consciousness.
2. to enter a state of hysterical rapture or ecstasy: The teenagers swooned at the sight of the singing star.
–noun
3. a faint or fainting fit; syncope.

Origin:
1250–1300; (v.) ME swo(w)nen to faint, orig. as ger. swowening, swoghning act of swooning, ult. continuing OE -swōgan (in compounds) to rush, overrun, choke; (n.) ME, partly deriv. of the v., partly extracted from in (a) swoune, on swoune, alter. of a swoune, aswoune in a swoon, as if equiv. to a a- 1 + swoon (n.), but prob. continuing OE āswōgen, ptp. of āswōgan to overcome (see a- 3 ), or geswōgen (ptp.) senseless, dead


swoon⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
swoon   (swōōn)   
intr.v.   swooned, swoon·ing, swoons
  1. To faint.
  2. To be overwhelmed by ecstatic joy.
n.  
  1. A fainting spell; syncope. See Synonyms at blackout.
  2. A state of ecstasy or rapture.

[Middle English swounen, probably from iswowen, in a swoon, from Old English geswōgen, past participle of *swōgan, to suffocate.]

Swoon

Swoon\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swooned; p. pr. & vb. n. Swooning.] [OE. swounen, swoghenen, for swo?nien, fr. swo?en to sigh deeply, to droop, AS. sw[=o]gan to sough, sigh; cf. gesw[=o]gen senseless, swooned, gesw[=o]wung a swooning. Cf. Sough.] 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

Swoon\, n. A fainting fit; syncope.
Language Translation for : swoon
Spanish: desmayarse,
German: in Ohnmacht fallen,
Japanese: 気絶する

swoon 
c.1290, swogene, probably from O.E. geswogen "in a faint," pp. of a lost verb, perhaps *swogan, as in aswogan "to choke," of uncertain origin. Cf. Low Ger. swogen "to sigh."
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