swoon
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1. swoon - Noun
2. swoon - Verb
Meaning
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.
A fainting fit; syncope.
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Locke sank into a swoon The Garden died God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.
Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then,” said Will. "I'll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery.
It's me,” said Jace. "Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.
That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observation?" "There is only one girl I care to make swoon," he said. "The question is, does she?" She smiled at him. "She does.
Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.
To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon in death.