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
- 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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