See swoon on Wiktionary
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"text": "\"I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon. How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!\"",
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"text": "As he drew near the throne, a rushing whirlwind arose in the corner of the hall and, lo! from the roof beams floated down a monstrous black serpent that coiled itself up on the very seat of majesty. The Emperor fell in a swoon.",
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"ref": "1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 539:",
"text": "I threw myself down on the island ground, like a dead man, and drowned in desolation swooned away, nor did I return to my senses till next morning, when the sun rose and revived me.",
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"ref": "1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “A Fair Goddess”, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918 September, →OCLC, page 107:",
"text": "I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a moment too soon. The girl had swooned.",
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"ref": "2011 August 2, “Perry the Platypus”, in Phineas and Ferb: Across the 1st and 2nd Dimensions, performed by Randy Crenshaw, Walt Disney Records:",
"text": "He's got more than just mad skill / He's got a beaver tail and a bill. / And the women swoon whenever they hear him say…",
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"word": "昏倒"
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"word": "omdlít"
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"word": "気絶する"
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"word": "بایلمق"
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"word": "па́дать в о́бморок"
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"word": "упа́сть в о́бморок"
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"word": "теря́ть созна́ние"
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"word": "потеря́ть созна́ние"
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"roman": "vtračaty svidomistʹ",
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"roman": "bayılmak",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "بایلمق"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pádatʹ v óbmorok",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "па́дать в о́бморок"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "upástʹ v óbmorok",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "упа́сть в о́бморок"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "terjátʹ soznánije",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "теря́ть созна́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poterjátʹ soznánije",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "потеря́ть созна́ние"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "desmayarse"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "neprytomnity",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "непритомніти"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "mlity",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "мліти"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vtračaty svidomistʹ",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "втрачати свідомість"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to be overwhelmed by emotion",
"word": "zwijmelen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be overwhelmed by emotion",
"word": "schwärmen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be overwhelmed by emotion",
"word": "in Verzückung geraten"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to be overwhelmed by emotion",
"word": "dåna"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "mlity",
"sense": "to be overwhelmed by emotion",
"word": "мліти"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "neprytomnity",
"sense": "to be overwhelmed by emotion",
"word": "непритомніти"
}
],
"word": "swoon"
}
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