as in fainted
to lose consciousness
easily swooned at the sight of blood
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Recent Examples of swooned
Jamie Squire / Getty Images The Chiefs stumbled to 0-2, however, and Baltimore swooned to a 1-5 start.
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Andrew Greif, NBC news, 2 Nov. 2025
Of course, social media was quick to flood the trailer's YouTube comments with criticism and jokes, while others, naturally, swooned over Elordi's appearance.
—Pamela Avila, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
At the time, bitcoin had traded above $80,000 for most of the year, falling to just below $75,000 as the stock market swooned.
—Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
Andrew Greif, NBC news, 2 Nov. 2025
Of course, social media was quick to flood the trailer's YouTube comments with criticism and jokes, while others, naturally, swooned over Elordi's appearance.
—Pamela Avila, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
At the time, bitcoin had traded above $80,000 for most of the year, falling to just below $75,000 as the stock market swooned.
—Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swooned
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At one point, a woman fainted and was lifted out of the church.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
4 Oct. 2025
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The Press Trust of India news agency reported that at least 30 people fainted while Vijay was speaking, per Reuters.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
28 Sep. 2025
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The sofa was so collapsed that getting up from it felt like core strength training.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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And then on Thursday, after most of the show had been written, a man collapsed in the Oval Office, generating an instantly meme-able photograph of the president staring into the camera, looking oblivious to efforts to revive the prone victim at stage left.—
Erik Adams,
The Atlantic,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Swooned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swooned. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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