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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
swoon .
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Examples
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And I repeated it; whereupon my cousin swooned again, and when she came to herself, she recited these two couplets,
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The first time my own transgressions were revealed to me by this handy gizmo, I nearly swooned from the shame, but we needn’t discuss that.
The Case of the Mysterious ¶ or Things Your Creative Writing Instructor Never Told You 2006
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The first time my own transgressions were revealed to me by this handy gizmo, I nearly swooned from the shame, but we needn’t discuss that.
October 2006 2006
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Perhaps this is why the word "swooned" is so apt: "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
The Journey Westward Collignon, James 1988
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Those were the days when women wept facilely, "swooned," inhaled hartshorn, calmed themselves with sal volatile, and even went into hysterics upon slight provocation.
Sleeping Fires: a Novel Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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Iris's great-grandmother might have "swooned" under such circumstances -- not so Iris, who fainted simply because of the strain imposed by failure to eat the queer fare provided by De Sylva and his associates.
The Stowaway Girl Louis Tracy 1895
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In the book, Jesus just "swooned" from being whipped, he said.
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In the book, Jesus just "swooned" from being whipped, he said.
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In the book, Jesus just "swooned" from being whipped, he said.
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In the book, Jesus just "swooned" from being whipped, he said.
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