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单词 swoon
释义 swoon
I. \ˈswün\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English swowenen, swounen, probably back-formation from swowening, swouning swoon — more at swooning
intransitive verb
1.
 a. : to suffer partial or total loss of consciousness : faint
  < perhaps he fell asleep, perhaps he swooned … who could say — Upton Sinclair >
 b. : to become enraptured : go into ecstasies
  < the ladies were swooning with joy — Frederick Way >
  < a man … whose mind swooned with apocalyptic splendors — Bernard De Voto >
2. : to drift languidly or die away : float, fade
 < soar and swoop and swoon and glide again — Robert Gibbings >
 < the noise swooned away, the trees were shrouded in a midnight hush — Gwyn Jones >
transitive verb
: to cause to swoon
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English swoune, swoun from swounen to swoon
1.
 a. : a partial or total loss of consciousness : syncope
  < when I wakened from the swoon — Sheridan Le Fanu >
 b. : a state of bewilderment or ecstasy : daze, rapture
  < sat in a floating swoon of … erotic longing — William Faulkner >
2.
 a. : a state of suspended animation : torpor
  < left the author … in a kind of moral and intellectual swoonTimes Literary Supplement >
 b. obsolete : a deep sleep
3. : a languorous drift
 < the orchestra goes Neapolitan in a swoon of strings — Claudia Cassidy >
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