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noun

as in trance
a temporary state of unconsciousness shocking news can cause a person to fall into a faint

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verb

as in to collapse
to lose consciousness the kind of person who faints at the sight of blood

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Recent Examples of faint
Adjective
The elder Sitake knows about embracing faint slivers of light in dark times. Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025 Astronomers started discovering objects that emitted powerful radio waves but, unlike most Seyfert galaxies, were very faint in visible light. Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
And no one in these countries faints from such statements, does not remember the law and international law, humanity and human rights. Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024 Then add in the fact that goalkeepers are under minute VAR scrutiny over moving off their line, while takers are allowed to get away all kinds of stops, starts and faints in their run up. Michael Cox, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024
Verb
Reuters — Racing Louisville midfielder Savannah DeMelo appeared to faint late in the first half of her team’s road match against Seattle Reign, which was abandoned Sunday night. Reuters, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025 Most had fainted on the job due to the heat or witnessed a co-worker who did. Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for faint
Recent Examples of Synonyms for faint
Adjective
  • And not just vague signs, actual amyloid plaques and tau tangles, the same hallmarks seen in human patients.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2025
  • A lot of people bounce through the system because these symptoms are so vague.
    Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The economy has withstood weak role creation precisely because the pool of applicants is shrinking.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The defensive line took advantage of a weak Auburn O-line, sacking Arnold five times.
    Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • My deep tissue massage using warm basalt stones and a local scrub made with salt from the nearby ponds left me in a dreamlike trance.
    Angela Caraway-Carlton, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Matisse dressed the part of a British gentleman and gazed at his conversation partners with a serenity that bordered on a trance.
    Christopher C. Gorham September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Some stars collapsed to the sea floor, dissolved into piles of goo.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The South Lebanon Army has just collapsed and Hezbollah are advancing fast while Israel is withdrawing its troops from Lebanon six weeks before its July deadline.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Barebottle won two gold medals for Hella Jalepeño in the chile beer category and Dank Dank Revolution in the juicy or hazy strong pale ale category.
    Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The dramatic liftoff, which was caught on video, sent two huge plumes of exhaust into the hazy sky.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The festival unfolds at a particularly tenuous time for the documentary field, which for the past several years has faced a feeble acquisition market.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Cupping was quite popular among feeble white women in North America, and those same marks, Daria knew, were present on her own body, concealed beneath her loose T-shirt.
    Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Over the past few years, Teasdale has grown to embrace the slow mornings and simple comforts that come with being a homebody, and Moisturizer, Wet Leg’s bright, celestial second album, captures small-hours moments, sofa snogs and falling into the buoyant daze of doing nothing all day.
    Sophie Williams, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Much like Metamorphosis arrived in the early aughts’ sparkly daze, Duff’s musical comeback also comes at the right moment in time.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Los Angeles has the venerable Griffith Observatory, the scene of James Dean's knife fight in 1955's Rebel Without A Cause and where swooning lovers swayed among stars in 2016's La La Land.
    Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • And The Life of a Showgirl finds Swift on cloud 9, swooning over her future with a fiancé and her present, infinite success.
    Jaeden Pinder, Pitchfork, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Faint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faint. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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