Usually means: Overwhelmed by emotion, fainting sensation.
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  1. swoon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. swoon: Merriam-Webster
  3. swoon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. swoon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. swoon: Collins English Dictionary
  6. swoon: Vocabulary.com
  7. Swoon, swoon: Wordnik
  8. swoon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. swoon: Wiktionary
  10. swoon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. swoon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. swoon: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. swoon: Dictionary.com
  14. swoon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. swoon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Swoon (Prefab Sprout album), Swoon (Silversun Pickups album), Swoon (artist), Swoon (film), Swoon (song), Swoon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Swoon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. swoon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. swoon: Rhymezone
  20. swoon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. swoon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. swoon: FreeDictionary.org
  23. swoon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. swoon: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. swoon: Legal dictionary

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  1. swoon: Encyclopedia

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  1. swoon: Medical dictionary

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  1. swoon: Idioms

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A faint.
▸ noun:  An infatuation.
▸ verb:  (literally) To faint, to lose consciousness.
▸ verb:  (by extension) To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To overwhelm with emotion, especially infatuation.
▸ verb:  To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection.

Similar:
pass out, faint, syncope, conk, sweem, sweam, sweb, weep, whimper, wooze, more...

Opposite:
faint, pass out, black out, lose consciousness

Types:
swoon of love, swoon of relief, swoon of joy, swoon of despair, more...

Phrases:
swoon hypothesis, swoon over, swoon worthy, swoon ecstasy, to swoon, more...

Adjectives:
deep, long, dead, like, deathlike, deadly, half, wakeful, ordinary, heavy, sudden

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Similar:
pass out, faint, syncope, conk, sweem, sweam, sweb, weep, whimper, wooze, more...

Opposite:
faint, pass out, black out, lose consciousness

Types:
swoon of love, swoon of relief, swoon of joy, swoon of despair, more...

Phrases:
swoon hypothesis, swoon over, swoon worthy, swoon ecstasy, to swoon, synonym for swoon, swoon melt, swoon song, more...

Adjectives:
deep, long, dead, like, deathlike, deadly, half, wakeful, ordinary, heavy, sudden

Colors:
    blush,     rose,     lavender,     mauve,     peach, more...



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