Crossword clues for swoon
swoon
- Faint from emotional overload
- Faint dead away
- What Sinatra's fans did
- Silversun Pickups 2nd
- Response to Sinatra
- Respond to the Jonas Brothers, say
- Reeling state
- Reaction to an idol, possibly
- React to the Beatles, perhaps
- React to one's idol, perhaps
- React to Beatlemania, perhaps
- React to a teen idol, perhaps
- React to a teen idol
- React like a superfan
- Lose one's footing, in a way
- Get lightheaded
- Get fainty
- Fall for an idol
- Fall for a heartthrob?
- Faint from joy
- Faint at the sight of one's idol
- Experience Bieber fever, possibly
- Exhibit faintness
- Black out while being crooned
- Bieber fever reaction, often
- Become overcome
- Beatles concert reaction, often
- Be ecstatic (over)
- [Oh my God, he's so hot!]
- "Panic Switch" Silversun Pickups album
- '09 Silversun Pickups album
- Faint from rapture
- Faint, as through ecstasy
- Faint with beating heart
- Pass out
- React to Ricky Martin, say
- Response to Beatlemania
- Be enraptured
- Act smitten
- Stereotypical reaction to Elvis
- Become rapturous
- Theatrical faint
- Beatlemania reaction
- Faint with ecstasy
- Show of overwhelming love
- A spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
- Syncope
- Blackout while young F.A.S. sang
- Victorian blackout
- Couple holding hands outside court pass out
- Wife brought in before long, becoming faint
- Faint, without disturbing younger family member
- Initially struggling, win out of nowhere, become ecstatic
- Keel over
- Go gaga for a guitar hero
- Have a fainting spell
- Feel faint
- Sinatra made his fans do it
- Respond to Beatlemania
- Reaction to a dreamy person
- React to a pop idol, perhaps
- Lose consciousness
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Swoon \Swoon\, n. A fainting fit; syncope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, suowne, suun, "state of unconsciousness," probably from Old English geswogen "in a faint," past participle of a lost verb *swogan (see swoon (v.)).
c.1200, "to become unconscious," probably from a lost Old English verb *swogan (as in Old English aswogan "to choke"), of uncertain origin. Compare Low German swogen "to sigh." Related: Swooned; swooning.\n
Wiktionary
n. 1 A faint. 2 An infatuation vb. (context dated English) to faint, to lose consciousness
WordNet
Wikipedia
Swoon may refer to: Fainting
- Swoon hypothesis, a number of theories about the resurrection of Jesus Christ
- Swoon (film), a film on the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case
- Swoon (artist), a graffiti artist from New York City
Swoon is the debut studio album by English pop band Prefab Sprout, released in March 1984. It has a markedly different, and less accessible, musical feel than their later works, featuring intricate guitar-based compositions that drew comparisons with Steely Dan and Aztec Camera.
Swoon (born Caledonia Dance Curry in 1978) is a street artist who specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of human figures. She studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and started doing street art around 1999 and large-scale installations in 2005.
Swoon is an independent film written and directed by Tom Kalin, released in 1992. It is an account of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, focusing more on the homosexuality of the killers than other movies based on the case. It starred Daniel Schlachet as Loeb and Craig Chester as Leopold.
Along with the films of Todd Haynes, Gregg Araki and others, Swoon is identified as part of the New Queer Cinema.
Swoon is the second full-length studio album by Los Angeles alternative rock band Silversun Pickups, released through Dangerbird Records on 14 April 2009. The name of the album comes from a line in the outro of the first track "There's No Secrets This Year."
"Swoon" is a song by The Chemical Brothers, released as the first official single from their 2010 album Further. The song was played on a few occasions by The Chemical Brothers prior to its release in their DJ sets. On 6 May 2010 an official video of the radio edit was put up on Parlophone YouTube page to promote the single. The radio edit of Swoon was released as a digital download on iTunes on 9 May 2010. The song entered at #100 in the UK Singles Chart, the lowest chart position the band has had to date, until it re-entered the charts shortly after at #88 and again at #85. Before the song appeared on Further, it appeared on a free CD which came in The Times newspaper; on 16 May 2010. The untitled CD is often called simply The Chemical Brothers. Only the radio edit, however, was featured.
The Boys Noize remix of "Swoon" featured on the soundtrack of Pro Evolution Soccer 2012.
Usage examples of "swoon".
Emily, and howled Palamon, And Theseus his sister took anon Swooning, and bare her from the corpse away.
Madam Clement, and, without being able to utter one word, was conducted to the house of that kind benefactress, where the violence of her transports overpowered her constitution, and she sunk down upon a couch in a swoon, from which she was not easily recovered.
She had often heard of bigamy, and that her husband should prove to be a bigamist did not throw her into a swoon.
She therefore no sooner opened the door, and saw her master standing by the bedside in his shirt, with a candle in his hand, than she started back in a most terrible fright, and might perhaps have swooned away, had he not now recollected his being undrest, and put an end to her terrors by desiring her to stay without the door till he had thrown some cloathes over his back, and was become incapable of shocking the pure eyes of Mrs.
Julie was of a huge-eyed and dusky-headed five-year-old, tottering in tear-stained from break with a waterlogged earthworm hanging in a swoon from her small, pink hand.
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.
In that moment of drama she was able to swoon into a most ladylike faint.
The strangeness of his hands, which came quick and cunning, inevitably to the vital place beneath her breasts, and, lifting with mocking, suggestive impulse, carried her through the air as if without strength, through blackmagic, made her swoon with fear.
Drain the life out of them, watch tans blanch, hear screams dwindle to swoons as they swung limp and bloodless from their manacles: all prelude to a suck-and-blow multifucked frenzy with Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail.
I detest, abhor, and swoon at the very word business, though no less than four letters of my very short sirname are in it.
I recovered from my swoon the inexpressible horror of my situation again descended upon my spirit like a snuffer upon a candle.
When he heard this, Don Quixote was dumbfounded, because at that instant he remembered an infinite number of adventures similar to this one, with windows, jalousies, gardens, music, amorous compliments, and swoons, which he had read in his delusive books of chivalry.
There were tears, sighs, swoons, and sobs when Don Gaspar Gregorio took his leave of Ana Felix.
In short, why not learn what is supposed to happen when Miss Morgan swoons for Roxborough.