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We found 29 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word fainting:
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General dictionaries General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. fainting: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  2. fainting: Wiktionary [home, info]
  3. Fainting, fainting: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  4. fainting: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  5. Fainting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  6. Fainting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  7. fainting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  8. Fainting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  9. fainting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  10. fainting: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
  11. fainting: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  12. fainting: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition (Encyclopedia.com) [home, info]
  13. fainting: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fainting: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fainting (syncope): MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. fainting: Technical and Popular Medical Terms [home, info]
  3. Fainting: Merck Manuals [home, info]
  4. fainting: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  5. Fainting: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia [home, info]
  6. Fainting: Disorder Index [home, info]
  7. fainting: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia [home, info]
  8. fainting: Medical dictionary [home, info]
  9. Fainting: University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms [home, info]
  10. Fainting (syncope): Drug Medical Dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fainting: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Fainting: Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices [home, info]
  3. fainting: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fainting: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fainting: The Folk File [home, info]

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Quick definitions (faint)

noun:  a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
verb:  pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
adjective:  barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc ("A faint outline")
adjective:  lacking strength or vigor ("Damning with faint praise")
adjective:  weak and likely to lose consciousness ("Suddenly felt faint from the pain")
adjective:  lacking conviction or boldness or courage ("Faint heart ne'er won fair lady")
adjective:  indistinctly understood or felt or perceived ("A faint clue to the origin of the mystery")
adjective:  lacking clarity or distinctness ("Only a faint recollection")

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