Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
swoon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete Swoon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Obsolete form of
swoon . - noun Obsolete form of
swoon .
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Examples
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Poplawski's mother later said in a swown statement that her son "liked police when they were not curtailing his constitutional rights."
Will Bunch: "Pop" Poplawski, the High-Def Hucksters, and the Downward Spiral of Violence 2010
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Consciousness...is now considered to consist primarily of the relationship between the hidden and the swown, between what is concealed and what is revealed.
Archive 2009-08-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Consciousness...is now considered to consist primarily of the relationship between the hidden and the swown, between what is concealed and what is revealed.
Nature cannot be a condition of consciousness because consciousness is the condition of nature Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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You pray that your Granny may have strength enough left her at the last (she's strong for an old one, Johnny), to get up from her bed and run and hide herself and swown to death in a hole, sooner than fall into the hands of those Cruel Jacks we read of that dodge and drive, and worry and weary, and scorn and shame, the decent poor. '
Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841
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Labour and their economics ` model 'is laid bare for the inept game that it has swown itself to be.
The Guardian World News Katie Allen 2010
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Labour and their economics ` model 'is laid bare for the inept game that it has swown itself to be.
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You pray that your Granny may have strength enough left her at the last (she’s strong for an old one, Johnny), to get up from her bed and run and hide herself and swown to death in a hole, sooner than fall into the hands of those Cruel Jacks we read of that dodge and drive, and worry and weary, and scorn and shame, the decent poor.’
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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