Synonyms:
faint, swoon, syncope, deliquium
Meaning: a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
faint, conk, swoon, pass_out
Meaning: pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
Usage examples
One fatal swoon has cost me my Life..
One minute only, swaying and nodding there, I stood: and then I dropped down flat in swoon.
Ladies, when pipes are brought, affect to swoon; They love no smoke, except the smoke of Town.
And therewith she took the sword from her love that lay dead, and fell to the ground in a swoon.
A grave symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always recover from such swoons.
It roused the Prince from his swoon, and with his last measure of strength, poor Desire dragged himself to the window.
Where?" he exclaimed opening his eyes, and sitting up on the chest, as though he had revived from a swoon, smiling brightly.
This flower the King plucked and placed in Eliza's bosom, when she awoke from her swoon with peace and happiness in her heart.
"In a few minutes the whole household was aroused, and Dick was off posthaste for the doctor, for we could not revive Miriam from her death-like swoon.
The task of recalling him from the vagrancy into which he always sank when he had spoken, was like recalling some very weak person from a swoon, or endeavouring, in the hope of some disclosure, to stay the spirit of a fast-dying man.