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UK
/swˈuːn/
]
[ US /ˈswun/ ]
[ US /ˈswun/ ]
VERB
- pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
NOUN
- a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
How To Use swoon In A Sentence
- The aristocracy are made to look like buffoons; the women swoon, the maids are oversexed, and the artist himself - the center of everyone's fawning attention - plays the dandy.
- It also makes you swoon. Times, Sunday Times
- We often read about overwrought ladies reaching for their vinaigrettes, or of stalwart heroes reviving a swooning damsel by waving a vinaigrette beneath her nose.
- She played the tambourine, the xylophone, and the harmonica, all to our swooning hearts' delight.
- No sentimental swooning with love for Austen. Times, Sunday Times
- This time the swoon was a deathly one, and did not yield easily. Tiger-Lilies. A Novel.
- The boy smiled toothily, and more girls swooned.
- The flock simultaneously screamed and swooned as Way crooned "Cancer," a dirge about a slow death from the title illness, all while backlit with a massive white spotlight and engulfed in a faux smoke haze. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com
- Some of the fans swooned at the sight of their beloved stars.
- A more light-minded woman than Anna Reynolds might have swooned at the romance of this troubled courtship.
