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swound

swound is the obsolete form of swoon.

Meaning of swoon

Noun

swoon (plural swoons)

  1. 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
  2. An infatuation.

See all 6 meanings of swoon

Forms of swound

Noun
pluralswounds
Verb
third-person singular presentswounds
present participleswounding
past participleswounded
pastswounded

Questions about swound

What is swound the obsolete form of?
Swound is the obsolete form of swoon.

Words near swound in the dictionary

  1. swotting
  2. swotting up on
  3. swotty
  4. swotvac
  5. swotvacs
  6. swound
  7. swounded
  8. swounding
  9. swounds
  10. Swoyer
  11. Swoyers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swound (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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