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swooning

swooning is the present participle and gerund of swoon.

Meaning of swoon

Verb

swoon (third-person singular simple present swoons, present participle swooning, simple past and past participle swooned)

  1. (literally) To faint, to lose consciousness.
    • "I swoon," quoth he.
  2. (broadly) To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation.
  3. (transitive) 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
  4. To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection.
    • The girls swooned at the picture of their favorite actor.

See all 6 meanings of swoon

Noun

swooning (plural swoonings)

  1. A swoon or faint.
    • People of weak nerves or delicate constitutions are liable to swoonings or fainting fits.2769, William Buchan, Domestic Medicine: or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines

Forms of swooning

pluralswoonings

Words formed from swooning

Questions about swooning

What does swooning mean?
Swooning means a swoon or faint.
What is swooning the present participle and gerund of?
Swooning is the present participle and gerund of swoon.
What part of speech is swooning?
Swooning is a noun.
What is the plural of swooning?
The plural of swooning is swoonings.

Words near swooning in the dictionary

  1. swoonest
  2. swooneth
  3. swoonier
  4. swooniest
  5. swoonily
  6. swooning
  7. swooningly
  8. swoonings
  9. swoonless
  10. swoons
  11. swoonsome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swooning (page history and authors); swoon (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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