as in fainting
to lose consciousness
easily swooned at the sight of blood
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Recent Examples of swooning
One of which, featuring Anna Cathcart’s Kitty Song Covey swooning over her love interest Min Ho (Sang Heon Lee), is embedded above.
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Katie Campione, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026
Shop everything below; then, continue swooning over Robbie and Elordi’s on-screen chemistry.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 10 Feb. 2026
Once upon a time, date night agendas would involve one of those activities before another; say, a table for two to split salad and pizza prior to swooning over Sleepless in Seattle.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Feb. 2026
The steamy trailer, featuring a soundtrack by Charli xcx, has swooning fans and literature purists polarized.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 24 Jan. 2026
One video pairs photos of Trump with the swooning sound of a Taylor Swift song; another mashes up a video snippet of the comedian Theo Von and shots of immigrants getting deported.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2026
Suddenly, Jeff Parker plucks a sighing six-note guitar run, dropping his shoulders into a solo section that carries the tune to its swooning conclusion.
—Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 20 Dec. 2025
The same could be said of his pair of Aaron Sorkin films, the grave and old-fashioned legal drama A Few Good Men (1992) and the swooning White House fairytale The American President (1995).
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 15 Dec. 2025
The siblings rocked back and forth as the theater erupted into more cheers, with several audience members audibly swooning over the tender moment.
—Sarah Jones, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
Katie Campione, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026
Shop everything below; then, continue swooning over Robbie and Elordi’s on-screen chemistry.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 10 Feb. 2026
Once upon a time, date night agendas would involve one of those activities before another; say, a table for two to split salad and pizza prior to swooning over Sleepless in Seattle.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Feb. 2026
The steamy trailer, featuring a soundtrack by Charli xcx, has swooning fans and literature purists polarized.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 24 Jan. 2026
One video pairs photos of Trump with the swooning sound of a Taylor Swift song; another mashes up a video snippet of the comedian Theo Von and shots of immigrants getting deported.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2026
Suddenly, Jeff Parker plucks a sighing six-note guitar run, dropping his shoulders into a solo section that carries the tune to its swooning conclusion.
—Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 20 Dec. 2025
The same could be said of his pair of Aaron Sorkin films, the grave and old-fashioned legal drama A Few Good Men (1992) and the swooning White House fairytale The American President (1995).
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 15 Dec. 2025
The siblings rocked back and forth as the theater erupted into more cheers, with several audience members audibly swooning over the tender moment.
—Sarah Jones, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swooning
fainting
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Staff described students being unable to focus, becoming dizzy and even fainting.—
Rory Linnane,
jsonline.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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Five hours earlier, construction worker Orlando Diaz arrived at the emergency department after fainting on the job due to the life-threatening condition of diabetic ketoacidosis.—
Allison Sesso,
STAT,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Swooning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swooning. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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