Antonyms for swoon


Grammar : Verb
Spell : swoon
Phonetic Transcription : swun


Definition of swoon

Origin :
  • c.1300, suowne, "state of unconsciousness," probably from Old English geswogen "in a faint," past participle of a lost verb *swogan, as in Old English aswogan "to choke," of uncertain origin. Cf. Low German swogen "to sigh."
  • verb faint
Example sentences :
  • All this Barnaby saw with his first clear consciousness after his swoon.
  • Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
  • Vanished into the swoon whose blackness encompassed and hid me.
  • Extract from : « Poems » by William D. Howells
  • I was ready to swoon, not with grief and trouble, but with solid joy and peace.'
  • Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
  • Did you drop no word during my swoon that might have led them to suspect?
  • Extract from : « Victor's Triumph » by Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
  • Private Smith wakened from one swoon only to fall into another.
  • Extract from : « When the West Was Young » by Frederick R. Bechdolt
  • The swoon of Athos had merely been occasioned by loss of blood.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 » by Various
  • A long time she lay in a swoon, her head on the very 373 edge of the brink.
  • Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet
  • And what do you suppose my dogs had been at during my swoon?
  • Extract from : « A Romance of the West Indies » by Eugne Sue
  • The women shriek and swoon, grovel on the ground, and tear their hair.
  • Extract from : « The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba » by Walter Goodman
  • All of a sudden, with a great big thump, our hearts seem to fall in a swoon.
  • Extract from : « My Reminiscences » by Rabindranath Tagore

Synonyms for swoon

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