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Word: Swoon
Speech Type: Verb
Etymology:
Middle English: the verb from obsolete swown ‘fainting’, the noun from aswoon ‘in a faint’, both from Old English geswōgen ‘overcome’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
swuːn
Dialects: British English
Definition:
faint, especially from extreme emotion
Short Definition:faint
Examples:- Frankie's mother swooned and had to be helped to the headmaster's office
Definition:
be overcome with admiration, adoration, or other strong emotion
Short Definition:be overcome with admiration, adoration, or other strong emotion
Examples:- you can have them swooning over you with a few well-placed words
Word: Swoon
Speech Type: Noun
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
swuːn
Dialects: British English
Definition:
an occurrence of fainting
Short Definition:occurrence of fainting
Examples:- I fell down in a swoon
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