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"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Swoonatra"
},
{
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"word": "swoon hypothesis"
},
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},
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},
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English swoune, swone, from the verb (see below).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "swoons",
"tags": [
"plural"
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}
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{
"ref": "14th century CE, Guanzhong, L., “1. Three Heroes Swear Brotherhood In The Peach Garden; One Victory Shatters The Rebels In Battlegrounds.”, in Brewitt-Taylor, C. H., transl., Romance of the Three Kingdoms, published 1925, archived from the original on 2022-01-25",
"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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"A faint."
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"links": [
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"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pripadǎk",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "припадък"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hūnjué",
"sense": "a faint",
"word": "昏厥"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "mdloby"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a faint",
"word": "bezwijming"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a faint",
"word": "tajuttomuus"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pâmoison"
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{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trastavai"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "testabau"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "agavante"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dada"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "desmaio"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pasamento"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Ohnmacht"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "lipothumía",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "λιποθυμία"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aisnéal"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fanntais"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "laige"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "néal"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "támh"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "támhnéal"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spasmo"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"alt": "しっしん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shisshin",
"sense": "a faint",
"word": "失神"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"alt": "きぜつ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kizetsu",
"sense": "a faint",
"word": "気絶"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "desmaio"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "óbmorok",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "о́бморок"
},
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"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "potérja soznánija",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "поте́ря созна́ния"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "neul"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "нѐсвестица"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "nèsvestica"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "desmayo"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a faint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "deliquio"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a faint",
"word": "svimning"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a faint",
"word": "svimningsanfall"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "mūrcha",
"sense": "a faint",
"word": "మూర్ఛ"
}
]
},
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"An infatuation."
],
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]
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"ipa": "/swuːn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/suːn/",
"tags": [
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"tags": [
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],
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},
{
"enpr": "swo͝on"
},
{
"enpr": "so͝on"
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"word": "swooningly"
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"word": "swoony"
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"form": "swoons",
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{
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"pos": "verb",
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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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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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"To faint, to lose consciousness."
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"word": "black out"
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{
"word": "faint"
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{
"word": "pass out"
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"_dis1": "89 8 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hūndǎo",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "昏倒"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "暈厥"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yūnjué",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "晕厥"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hūnjué",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "昏厥"
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{
"_dis1": "89 8 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"tags": [
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"word": "omdlít"
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{
"_dis1": "89 8 2",
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"tags": [
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"word": "omdlévat"
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{
"_dis1": "89 8 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
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"word": "padat do mdlob"
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"_dis1": "89 8 2",
"alt": "きぜつする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kizetsu suru",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "気絶する"
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"_dis1": "89 8 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pádatʹ v óbmorok",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "па́дать в о́бморок"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "upástʹ v óbmorok",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "упа́сть в о́бморок"
},
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"_dis1": "89 8 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "terjátʹ soznánije",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "теря́ть созна́ние"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poterjátʹ soznánije",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "потеря́ть созна́ние"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "neprytomnity",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "непритомніти"
},
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"_dis1": "89 8 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
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"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "мліти"
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{
"_dis1": "89 8 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vtračaty svidomistʹ",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "втрачати свідомість"
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"To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation."
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[
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"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation."
],
"tags": [
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"translations": [
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"_dis1": "7 87 7",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to be overwhelmed by emotion",
"word": "zwijmelen"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 87 7",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to be overwhelmed by emotion",
"word": "dåna"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 87 7",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "mlity",
"sense": "to be overwhelmed by emotion",
"word": "мліти"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 87 7",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "neprytomnity",
"sense": "to be overwhelmed by emotion",
"word": "непритомніти"
}
]
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{
"text": "The girls swooned at the picture of their favorite actor.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "2013 (November 2) Pinky 10 minutes into episode 25 (\"The Spy Who Slimed Me\") of TV series \"Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures\" per closed captions\n[Swoons] For sure. He's totally dreamy. Uh--but my heart still belongs to you, Pac-ums."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection."
],
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"links": [
[
"moan",
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[
"sigh",
"sigh"
],
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"affection",
"affection"
]
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"ipa": "/swuːn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/suːn/",
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"tags": [
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{
"enpr": "swo͝on"
},
{
"enpr": "so͝on"
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"feminine"
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"masculine"
],
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"feminine"
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],
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},
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"code": "te",
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"word": "మూర్ఛ"
}
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hūndǎo",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "昏倒"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "暈厥"
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"roman": "yūnjué",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "晕厥"
},
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"roman": "hūnjué",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "昏厥"
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"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
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"word": "omdlévat"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
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"word": "padat do mdlob"
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"alt": "きぜつする",
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"lang": "Japanese",
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"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "気絶する"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "pádatʹ v óbmorok",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
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"word": "па́дать в о́бморок"
},
{
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "upástʹ v óbmorok",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "упа́сть в о́бморок"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
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"imperfective"
],
"word": "теря́ть созна́ние"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poterjátʹ soznánije",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
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"perfective"
],
"word": "потеря́ть созна́ние"
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "neprytomnity",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "непритомніти"
},
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "mlity",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "мліти"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vtračaty svidomistʹ",
"sense": "to faint — see also faint",
"word": "втрачати свідомість"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to be overwhelmed by emotion",
"word": "zwijmelen"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to be overwhelmed by emotion",
"word": "dåna"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "mlity",
"sense": "to be overwhelmed by emotion",
"word": "мліти"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "neprytomnity",
"sense": "to be overwhelmed by emotion",
"word": "непритомніти"
}
],
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}
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