swooning

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Screaming, swooning, hissing.

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  1. The act of fainting; syncope. He was so agast of that grysyly goste That yn a swonyng he was almoste. Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 85. Thence faintings, swoonings of despair, And sense of Heaven's desertion. Milton, S. A., l. 631.

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  • Minto says that the tears and swooning is a strange picture, and assures him as before that nothing can be more pure and ardent than this flame; and she might have added that they had in reality exchanged souls. —  Drake, Nelson and Napoleon
  • Stalwart sentries were found melted into actual deliquium of swooning, as the Preternatural swept by this second time. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • When he entered the scene wearing a tux, with his hair all fixed nice …. and those blue, bedroom eyes … .. (swooning). —  Staff Blogs
  • After 2 months of whining and shrieking, moaning and groaning, fainting and swooning, a 9th Order of Canada has been returned: —  Progressive Bloggers
  • Evangelicals are swooning, women are empowered, and McCain gets the holy grail of the oval office. —  WordPress.com News
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  1. from Middle English swounyng, swonyng; verbal noun of swoon, v.
 

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