[
UK
/swˈuːnɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈswunɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈswunɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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weak and likely to lose consciousness
light-headed from lack of sleep
felt light in the head
suddenly felt faint from the pain
light-headed with wine
a swooning fit
was sick and faint from hunger
How To Use swooning In A Sentence
- We often read about overwrought ladies reaching for their vinaigrettes, or of stalwart heroes reviving a swooning damsel by waving a vinaigrette beneath her nose.
- She played the tambourine, the xylophone, and the harmonica, all to our swooning hearts' delight.
- No sentimental swooning with love for Austen. Times, Sunday Times
- I never understood the screaming hysteria, swooning, and sobbing that seem conventional behaviour for thronging female audiences at big rock concerts.
- Her first feature, La Ciénaga, or The Swamp, exuded a fetid, toxic atmosphere: a film on the verge of swooning, overcome by its own unwholesomely sensual fumes.
- Two party patrons swooning over the calorific Oreos were Patty Godfrey and Lyn Stewart.
- The foxy temptress and swooning beauty of popular imagination was a violent pragmatist for whom death held no chill.
- Similarly, his image of St. Francis conveys the saint's swooning spirituality with all the appropriate trappings - halo, monastic robe, stigmata and the animals to which he preached.
- They had nutritionists swooning but Oliver soared clear over double-oxers, and Cassidy outsang the birds. The Elvis Latte
- Aside from a swooning housing market, soaring energy prices, a credit crisis and fresh concerns about jobs, this fall was one of the balmiest on record. Lookahead: Can It Get Worse?