swoon
/swuːn/
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obsolete/suːn/
swoon noun: a faint.
Noun
swoon (plural swoons)
- A faint.
- She dandled it, and dancet it up and doune, / Not ceasing till she rais'd it from his swoune.1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of Valentines, lines 138-139
- "I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon. How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!"1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC
- An infatuation.
Verb
swoon (third-person singular simple present swoons, present participle swooning, simple past and past participle swooned)
- To faint, to lose consciousness.
- "I swoon," quoth he.
- I threw myself down on the island ground, like a dead man, and drowned in desolation swooned away, nor did I return to my senses till next morning, when the sun rose and revived me.1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 539
- To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation.
- To overwhelm with emotion, especially infatuation.
- That plush mustache of yours has completely swooned me!2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Boggly Woods
- To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection.
- The girls swooned at the picture of their favorite actor.
- 2013 (November 2), Pinky, 10 minutes into episode 25 ("The Spy Who Slimed Me") of TV series "Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures" per closed captions
[Swoons] For sure. He's totally dreamy. Uh--but my heart still belongs to you, Pac-ums.
swoon meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Malayalam
swoon in Tamil
- to faint — see also faint
- மயங்கு mayaṅku
swoon in Urdu
- چکر, غفلت, غش, سکتہ, غصہ آنا
swoon in Telugu
- a faint
- మూర్ఛ mūrcha
swoon in Malayalam
- മൂർച്ഛിക്കുക, മോഹാലസ്യപ്പെടുക, ബോധംകെടുക
More languagesFewer languages
- swoon in Kannada
- ಕವಳಿ, ನೀಡರು, ಎಳತಟ, ಎಳೆತಟ
- swoon in Punjabi
- ਮੂਰਛਾ mūrchā
- swoon in Arabic
- إِغْمَاء ʔiḡmāʔ
Examples of swoon in a sentence
- Elvis was swinging his pelvis around and the ladies were swooning.
- The crooner had a velvety voice that made the ladies swoon.
- Sandra swooned over Pierce's manly jawline.
Synonyms of swoon
Forms of swoon
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | swoons |
| alternative form (obsolete) | swound |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | swoons |
| present participle | swooning |
| past participle | swooned |
| past | swooned |
Origin of swoon
From Middle English swoune, swone, from the verb (see below).
From Middle English swounen, swonen (“to faint”), and aswoune (“in a swoon”), both ultimately from Old English ġeswōgen (“insensible, senseless, dead”), past participle of swōgan (“to make a sound, overrun, suffocate”) (compare Old English āswōgan (“to cover over, overcome”)), from Proto-West Germanic *swōgan, from Proto-Germanic *swōganą (“to make a noise”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂gʰ-. Cognates Cognate with German Low German swogen, swögen (“to faint, sigh, groan”), Dutch zwoegen (“to groan, breathe heavily”), dialectal Norwegian søgja (“to whistle, hum, talk loudly”). More at sough.
Words formed from swoon
Words that rhyme with swoon
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- croon
- blue moon
- boon
- monsoon
- noon
- pontoon
- raccoon
- tribune
- attune
- dragoon
- hoon
- immune
- picayune
- platoon
- soon
- tycoon
- afternoon
- baboon
- commune
- doubloon
- harpoon
- jejune
- pantaloon
- picaroon
- shalloon
- bassoon
- buffoon
- cocoon
- dabloon
- entune
- gadroon
- hewn
- impugn
- jargoon
- june
- lacune
- last chance saloon
- lune
- macaroon
- man in the moon
- maroon
- poon
- puccoon
- ratoon
- scone
- toon
- trial balloon
- troon
Questions about swoon
- What does swoon mean?
- Swoon means a faint.
- What is swoon in Tamil?
- Swoon in Tamil is மயங்கு (mayaṅku). See Swoon meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is swoon?
- Swoon can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce swoon?
- Swoon is pronounced /swuːn/.
- What is the plural of swoon?
- The plural of swoon is swoons.
Words near swoon in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: swoon (page history and authors); swoon (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); swoon (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); swoon (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਮੂਰਛਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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