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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
swoon/swuːn/
▶verb
  • 1 literary faint, especially from extreme emotion.
  • 2 (usu. swoon over) be overcome with adoration or other strong emotion.
▶noun literary a faint.
– origin ME: as swown ‘fainting’, aswoon ‘in a faint’, both from OE geswōgen ‘overcome’.



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