aswoon

[ uh-swoon ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

being in a swoon:
the duchess aswoon on the couch in despair.

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Word History and Origins

1300–50; Middle English aswowe ( n ), aswowne, alteration (with initial vowel taken as a- ¹ ) of i swone ( n ), in swoue ( n ), reanalysis, as a prepositional phrase, of iswouen, Old English geswōgen fainted; y-, swoon

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Example Sentences

She looked now like an Oread aswoon in the midday heats, pure of thought or dread or memory.

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Justice is fallen aswoon in the gate; and the long shadows of the evening are stretched out upon us.

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He understood that she was nearly aswoon because he had suffered once.

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