Word Meanings - SWOON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away. The sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. Lam. ii. 11. The most in years . . . swooned first away

Additional info about word: SWOON

To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away. The sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. Lam. ii. 11. The most in years . . . swooned first away for pain. Dryden. He seemed ready to swoon away in the surprise of joy. Tatler. (more info) AS. swogan to sough, sigh; cf. geswogen senseless, swooned, geswowung

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SWOON)

• Lethargy
• Drowsiness
• torpor
• oblivion
• stupor
• swoon
• trance

Related words: (words related to SWOON)

• DROWSINESS
  State of being drowsy. Milton.
• TORPOR
  1. Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness. 2. Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties.
• SWOON
  To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away. The sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. Lam. ii. 11. The most in years . . . swooned first away
• TORPORIFIC
  Tending to produce torpor.
• TRANCE
  A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still
• STUPOR
  1. Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy. 2. Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.
• OBLIVION
  1. The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness. Second childishness and mere oblivion. Shak. Among our crimes oblivion may be set. Dryden The origin of our city will be buried in eternal oblivion.
• SWOONING
  from Swoon, v. -- Swoon"ing*ly, adv.
• LETHARGY
  1. Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked. 2. A state of inaction or indifference. Europe lay then under a deep lethargy. Atterbury.
• ASWOON
  In a swoon. Chaucer.
• ASWOONED
  In a swoon.
• DEMONSTRANCE
  Demonstration; proof. Holland.
• PENETRANCE; PENETRANCY
  The quality or state of being penetrant; power of entering or piercing; penetrating power of quality; as, the penetrancy of subtile effluvia.
• OUTRANCE
  The utmost or last extremity. Combat à outrance, a fight to the end, or to the death.
• REMONSTRANCE
  See MONSTRANCE (more info) 1. The act of remonstrating; as: A pointing out; manifestation; proof; demonstration. You may marvel why I . . . would not rather Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power Than
• MONSTRANCE
  A transparent pyx, in which the consecrated host is exposed to view.
• REENTRANCE
  The act entereing again; re Hooker.
• DISENTRANCE
  To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras.
• ENTRANCEMENT
  The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy. Otway.
• ENTRANCE
  1. The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into