| swoon; just swoon. |
| Written by Shahlin Graves |
| Monday, 17 August 2009 21:01 |
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swoon |swoōn| verb [ intrans. ] faint from extreme emotion : I don't want a nurse who swoons at the sight of blood. • be emotionally affected by someone or something that one admires; become ecstatic : teenagers swoon over Japanese pop singers. noun an occurrence of fainting : her strength ebbed away and she fell into a swoon. ORIGIN Middle English : the verb from obsolete swown [fainting,] the noun from aswoon [in a faint,] both from Old English geswōgen [overcome.] and this; is what a swoon sounds like... |
