swooned; swooning; swoons
swooner
noun
Examples of swoon in a Sentence
Verb
She almost swooned from fright.
easily swooned at the sight of blood
Noun
she wandered about in a swoon for several days after receiving the tragic news
fell into a swoon after stepping off of the incredibly fast roller coaster
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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
Stan Choe, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
As Cory's spacey, swoon-worthy big brother Eric, Friedle brought the laughs and, sometimes, the older child wisdom.
—Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
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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
Noun
Thursday’s swoon erased an early morning gain driven by an encouraging signal about the artificial-intelligence boom.
—Stan Choe, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
As Cory's spacey, swoon-worthy big brother Eric, Friedle brought the laughs and, sometimes, the older child wisdom.
—Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Swoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swoon. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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swoon
1 of 2 verb1
2
: to drift or fade gradually
swooner
noun
swoon
2 of 2 noun1
: a partial or total loss of consciousness
2
: a dreamlike state
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