swoon
verb/swuːn/
/swuːn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they swoon | /swuːn/ /swuːn/ |
| he / she / it swoons | /swuːnz/ /swuːnz/ |
| past simple swooned | /swuːnd/ /swuːnd/ |
| past participle swooned | /swuːnd/ /swuːnd/ |
| -ing form swooning | /ˈswuːnɪŋ/ /ˈswuːnɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] swoon (over somebody) to feel very excited, emotional, etc. about somebody that you think is sexually attractive
- He's used to having women swooning over him.
- [intransitive] (old-fashioned) to become unconscious synonym faint
Word OriginMiddle English: the verb from obsolete swown ‘fainting’, the noun from aswoon ‘in a faint’, both from Old English geswōgen ‘overcome’.
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