Crossword clues for swooning
swooning
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swoon \Swoon\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swooned; p. pr. & vb. n. Swooning.] [OE. swounen, swoghenen, for swo?nien, fr. swo?en to sigh deeply, to droop, AS. sw[=o]gan to sough, sigh; cf. gesw[=o]gen senseless, swooned, gesw[=o]wung a swooning. Cf. Sough.] To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away.
The sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
--Lam.
ii. 11.
The most in years . . . swooned first away for pain.
--Dryden.
He seemed ready to swoon away in the surprise of joy.
--Tatler.
Swooning \Swoon"ing\, a. & n. from Swoon, v. -- Swoon"ing*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
n. A swoon or faint. vb. (present participle of swoon English)
WordNet
adj. weak and likely to lose consciousness; "suddenly felt faint from the pain"; "was sick and faint from hunger"; "felt light in the head"; "a swooning fit"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep" [syn: faint, light, light-headed, lightheaded]
Usage examples of "swooning".
Emily, and howled Palamon, And Theseus his sister took anon Swooning, and bare her from the corpse away.
Bids to the front in radiant defile A trooping host whose pomps incarnadine The faded trophies of the dying day, And, lest I fail before so brave array, She decks the quiet clouds where fancies dwell With sweet translucent gleam and melting hue To woo my swooning sense with softer spell Of blissful pink and hyacinthine blue.
No living creature moved on the dumb, swooning earth, but tiny jerboas scuttling through the parched bushes, or lizards vanishing in the clefts of the rock.
And once, while among mortals dreaming thus, She saw the young Corinthian Lycius Charioting foremost in the envious race, Like a young Jove with calm uneager face, And fell into a swooning love of him.
Paullini cites an instance of vomiting caused by music, and Marcellus Donatus mentions swooning from the same cause.
As the swooning professor slumped forward onto the table, his last conscious thoughts were of the sugared zeppole and his own forthcoming doom.
After three years in pale, swooning Cereus House, he was positively exotic to my eyes.
Perhaps it was partly a nostalgia for that extinct Lawrentian woman of the past, the woman inferior to man in everything but that one great power of female dark mystery and beauty: the brilliant, virile male and the dark, swooning female.
Emily, and howled Palamon, And Theseus his sister took anon Swooning, and bare her from the corpse away.
L E G E N D At that Manuel had to catch his wife to keep her from swooning.
I mean, you should have been swooning over Depeche Mode, or Sting or somebody.
Yet only a week ago you were swooning like a virgin bride over the balance sheet of Ladyburg Estates, and Zululand sugar.
Terrified of humiliating herself by swooning in front of this indifferent stranger, she fumbled at the window for a latch, frantically seeking a breath of fresh air.
She watched, near swooning, as he grimed blood into his big knuckles and the lines of his palms.
Sixteen men had died in the attempt, suffocated by the steam and smoke, struck down by flying shards of exploding rock or merely overcome by the heat to fall swooning onto the glowing floor and to sizzle while their flesh stuck to the hot rock and came away in stinking slabs from the bone.