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swoon::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | deliquium, faint, syncope |
| Type of | loss of consciousness |
Examples of swoon
swoon
Lose this one and the December swoon stuff will again take on a life of its own.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Oil prices resumed their upward tick Friday after a one-day profit taking swoon.
From the usatoday.com
Next, I introduced myself to Christina Hendricks, and proceeded to swoon openly.
From the boston.com
In the end, maybe there was no real glitch anywhere in that May 6 trading swoon.
From the suntimes.com
Seeing them spoon out the fragrant pozole is enough to make strong people swoon.
From the sfgate.com
In other words, the economy was stalling even before Wall Street's latest swoon.
From the economist.com
After today's swoon, Gome's stock will have lost more than 30% in the past year.
From the forbes.com
With 25 games left in the season, a six-week swoon by the Lightning was history.
From the usatoday.com
But for all the progress, it's not as if Romney is causing Iowa voters to swoon.
From the huffingtonpost.com
- Faint: a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
- Faint: pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
- (swooning) faint: weak and likely to lose consciousness; "suddenly felt faint from the pain"; "was sick and faint from hunger"; "felt light in the head"; "a swooning fit"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep"
- Swoon (born Caledonia Dance Curry in 1978) is a street artist who specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of human figures. She studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and started doing street art around 1999 and large-scale installations in 2005.
- Swoon is an independent film written and directed by Tom Kalin, released in 1992. It is an account of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, focusing more on the homosexuality of the killers than other movies based on the case. It starred Daniel Schlachet as Loeb and Craig Chester as Leopold.
- Swoon is the first album by English pop band Prefab Sprout, released in March 1984. It has a markedly different, and less accessible, musical feel than their later works, featuring intricate guitar-based compositions that drew comparisons with Steely Dan and Aztec Camera.
- Swoon is the second full-length studio album by Los Angeles alternative rock band Silversun Pickups, released through Dangerbird Records on 14 April 2009. The name of the album comes from a line in the outro of the first track "There's No Secrets This Year"
- "Swoon" is a song by The Chemical Brothers, released as the first official single from their 2010 album Further. The song was played on a few occasions by The Chemical Brothers prior to its release in their DJ sets. ...
- (Swooning) Syncope is the medical term for fainting, a sudden, usually temporary, loss of consciousness generally caused by insufficient oxygen in the brain either through cerebral hypoxia or through hypotension, but possibly for other reasons. ...
