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# swooning

«swooning» in Mova's school dictionary: **fainting or falling down in a faint** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (present participle of swoon: swooning)

### meaning for a pupil

Swooning means fainting or falling down in a faint. (old use) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swooning/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a character is shown falling to the ground in a faint, as from wonder or fear

### examples

- He fell swooning to the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swooning/#x1)
- Ring was nearly swooning by then. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swooning/#x2)
- The swooning girl was carried home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swooning/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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