swoon
IPA: swˈun
noun
- A faint.
- An infatuation.
verb
- (literally) To faint, to lose consciousness.
- (by extension) To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation.
- To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection.
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Examples of "swoon" in Sentences
- It's time to sicken and to swoon,
- Females swoon at the sight of one.
- I'm swooning just reading about it.
- His guitar playing made women swoon.
- Premies would often swoon afterwards.
- The crowd applauded, and the press swooned.
- IF swooning overlaps with getting hot and wet.
- At the first glimpse I like to fell into a swoon.
- But there was no swooning in that superheated room.
- This article is not some swooning schoolgirl's diary.
- This time the swoon was a deathly one, and did not yield easily.
- I fall from my chair in a swoon, which is of longer or shorter endurance.
- The consensus is that Obama's mid-term swoon has begun and the health care bill is going to be the first casualty.
- Whatever her true malady, one thing was perfectly clear: whether her swoon was the press's fault or not, the Michiko-bashing era is over.
- Housing sales and prices continue their interminable swoon, which is a serious drag on the overall economy and likely to remain through 2012.
- "Fifteen minutes before we left her dead, or in a dead swoon, which is all the same in Greek, and yet he talks of her getting up and going off herself!"
- As he told it, his swoon was a mere untoward incident and hindrance in a spiritual drama, the thrill of which, while he described it, passed even to her.
- Which is redolent with the central tenets of surrealism that made Lamarkin swoon (“beauty will be convulsive or not at all.”), when it involved a deep awareness of the unconscious, before it became a synonym for indolence and an excuse for the dirty word of indifference.
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