SWOONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swooning mean? 

• SWOONING (adjective)
  The adjective SWOONING has 1 sense:

1. weak and likely to lose consciousness

  Familiarity information: SWOONING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWOONING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Weak and likely to lose consciousness

Synonyms:

faint; light; light-headed; lightheaded; swooning

Context example:

light-headed from lack of sleep

Similar:

ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)

 Context examples 

But there was no swooning in that superheated room.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With them went Alleyne, still bound to his saddle, still dripping with blood, and swooning and recovering, and swooning once again.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My nerves vibrated to those low-spoken words as they had never vibrated to thunder—my blood felt their subtle violence as it had never felt frost or fire; but I was collected, and in no danger of swooning.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So exquisite was the pang of love and desire fulfilled that she uttered a low moan, relaxed her hands, and lay half-swooning in his arms.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When the Jazz History of the World was over girls were putting their heads on men's shoulders in a puppyish, convivial way, girls were swooning backward playfully into men's arms, even into groups knowing that some one would arrest their falls—but no one swooned backward on Gatsby and no French bob touched Gatsby's shoulder and no singing quartets were formed with Gatsby's head for one link.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)