swoons 1 of 2

plural of swoon

swoons

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of swoon
as in collapses
to lose consciousness easily swooned at the sight of blood

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Recent Examples of swoons
Noun
What rankles even more about 2025 is that, in other late-season swoons, the Mets have at least been tracked down by an adversary. Tim Britton, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025 That’s partly because prolonged summer swoons have become an annual occurrence under Boone. Gary Phillips, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2025 So of course Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) swoons after their first official conversation. Mara Reinstein, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swoons
Noun
  • Read on to shop our picks for the best stocking stuffers and mini delights for this holiday season—including sweet treats, cold-weather accessories, and charming knickknacks.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Here are a few playful charcuterie board games to get your autumn party started by rolling the dice with some sweet, savory, salty, spicy, and umami seasonal delights.
    Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Catskills have always been a retreat—first for 19th-century painters and writers, later for city escapees chasing mountain air and summer swims.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Chicago River Swim raises money for ALS research The race was organized by A Long Swim, which raises money for ALS research by staging open water swims throughout the United States.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Since then, Fox and Pollan have shared joys — like welcoming their four now-adult children Sam, 36, twins Aquinnah and Schuyler, 30, and Esmé, 23 — and challenges, including Fox’s 1991 Parkinson’s disease diagnosis.
    Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Money is a remarkable tool, capable of offering independence and the joys that come from thousands of years of humans figuring out how to make life more comfortable, entertaining, and enlightening.
    Big Think, Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For several days this week, cities across the Indian Ocean nation – one of Africa’s poorest – have been flooded with young protesters outraged over water shortages and rolling blackouts.
    Kara Fox, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Known by the acronym BESS, the systems can make grids more reliable and have been credited with reducing blackouts.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Scorsese’s life and work, still ongoing thank heavens, have been given a rather simple five-act structure for purposes of the documentary.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Just look a little to the left of Altair in the early evening heavens.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025

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“Swoons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swoons. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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