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Plural for a sudden or temporary loss of consciousness
“When he returned home from this excursion, he fell into an unconscious swoon, during which they fed him a drug they had brought with them from Ethiopia.”
Plural for the state or quality of being dazed or mentally confused
“A mocking laugh from an upper window of the palace roused him from his dizzy swoon.”
Plural for a feeling of intense pleasure, happiness or joy
“Her eyelids would quiver in a kind of rapturous swoon.”
To undergo a loss of consciousness
“Yet there are beings so unhappy as to have an antipathy to strawberries, and to swoon at the sight of a rose.”
To be in love or act romantically
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