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# swoon

«swoon» in Mova's school dictionary: **to faint, or fall into a deep sleep-like state** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (swoon, swoons, swooned, swooning); noun (a swoon)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To swoon is to faint, or fall into a deep sleep-like state. (old use) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swoon/#m1)

2) A swoon is a faint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swoon/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales a person falls down in a faint, often from love or shock; the word is older than «faint»

### examples

- She swooned at the sight of the prince. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swoon/#x1)
- He fell into a swoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swoon/#x2)
- The king's daughter nearly swooned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swoon/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Thou also shalt be drunken, thou shalt swoon; thou also shalt seek a refuge because of the enemy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.44/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «swoon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swoon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.