Crossword clues for fainting
fainting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Faint \Faint\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fainted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fainting.]
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To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See Fainting, n.
Hearing the honor intended her, she fainted away.
--Guardian.If I send them away fasting . . . they will faint by the way.
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To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
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To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye.
--Pope.
Fainting \Faint"ing\, n. Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak.
Fainting fit, a fainting or swoon; syncope. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
n. An act of collapsing to a state of temporary unconsciousness. vb. (present participle of faint English)
Usage examples of "fainting".
Of course everyone understood that the Ancestress had no intention of burying her wealth with Fainting Maid, but the display was customary, and it was also designed to make lesser mortals turn green with envy.
I have a very clear memory of a golden afternoon when the butler was instructing me in the etiquette of a great house, Henpecked Ho's beloved wife and her seven fat sisters were sipping tea in the Garden of Forty Felicitous Fragrances, Fainting Maid was insulting the intelligence of her ladies-in-waiting in the Gallery of Precious Peacocks, and the Ancestress was chiding a servant who had dropped a cup on the Terrace of Sixty Serenities.
My bride-to-be was a startlingly pretty girl whose name was Fainting Maid.
First between Fainting Maid's breasts in the carriage, and then in ghost form between the breasts of Bright Star.
It had been twenty years since they had enjoyed a windfall like the funeral of Fainting Maid, and they begged Master Li to stay as their leader.
Having gone a considerable way, fatigue, at length, compelled her to stop, and she threw herself upon the turf, almost fainting with fear and languor.
He held out his hand to her in silence, sunk back in his chair, and seemed to be fainting under oppression of heart.
Then, the effort having exhausted her strength, she fell not asleep this time, but fainting on the floor.
She stared at the fainting old man so that she need not look back at that horrible red-stained pool on the floor, soaking through robes and hair and long cloak.
The Princess, however, was near fainting, and was obliged to lean upon the foot of the bed for support.