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How to pronounce swooning in English?

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Synonyms faint, light, light-headed, lightheaded


a swooning fit.

Examples of swooning

swooning
Being mobbed by posses of swooning schoolgirls in the heart of the Axis of Evil?
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I'm swooning over a red-and-black-shaded lamp that I think I might have to buy.
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The swooning, he told her, was probably an aura that precedes seizure activity.
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But nothing so far has indicated that Emery is susceptible to nostalgic swooning.
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Three points that might have breathed a little air into swooning San Francisco.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Wolfe suggested that what we are seeing may be the modern equivalent of swooning.
From the nytimes.com
I understand those tween girls who are swooning over the new Jonas Brothers movie.
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Indeed, where the swooning Virgin was depicted, she was often even more prominent.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A tsunami is churning, Hugh Jackman is crooning, Kerri Washington is swooning.
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More examples
  • 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. ...