swoon
[verb]
Synonyms: faint, black out, crap out, pass out, swarf, swelt
[noun]
Synonyms: faint, blackout, coma, syncope

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Related Words: die away, drown

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swoon /swuːn/ verb [intransitive]
[Date: 1300-1400; Origin: swown 'to swoon' (13-19 centuries), from Old English geswogen 'made sick or unconscious']

1. to be extremely excited and unable to control yourself because you admire someone so much
swoon over
crowds of teenage girls swooning over pop stars

2. old-fashioned to fall to the ground because you have been affected by an emotion or shock Synonym : faint
—swoon noun [singular]

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