MEANING
1. To faint or become briefly unconscious.
2. To become intensely delighted, admiring, or infatuated.
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Words that belong together
- swoon from heat
- swoon at the sight
On the page
She seemed about to swoon when the airless room grew hotter.
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Word forms
- Base
- swoon
- Past tense
- swooned
- Past participle
- swooned
- Present participle
- swooning
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- swoon
- Present continuous
- am/is/are swooning
- Present perfect
- have/has swooned
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been swooning
- Past
- swooned
- Past continuous
- was/were swooning
- Past perfect
- had swooned
- Past perfect continuous
- had been swooning
- Future
- will swoon
- Future continuous
- will be swooning
- Future perfect
- will have swooned
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been swooning
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: swoon; swoons; swooned; swooned; swooning Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: swoons.
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