swoon

swoon
swooningly, adv.
/swoohn/, v.i.
1. to faint; lose consciousness.
2. to enter a state of hysterical rapture or ecstasy: The teenagers swooned at the sight of the singing star.
n.
3. a faint or fainting fit; syncope.
[1250-1300; (v.) ME swo(w)nen to faint, orig. as ger. swowening, swoghning act of swooning, ult. continuing OE -swogan (in compounds) to rush, overrun, choke; (n.) ME, partly deriv. of the v., partly extracted from in (a) swoune, on swoune, alter. of a swoune, aswoune in a swoon, as if equiv. to a A-1 + swoon (n.), but prob. continuing OE aswogen, ptp. of aswogan to overcome (see A-3), or geswogen (ptp.) senseless, dead]

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