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View definitions for fainting

fainting

adjective as in dizzying

noun as in blackout

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As the president neared the end of his remarks, a young woman beside him began to wobble, on the verge of fainting.

Clinton was hospitalized to treat a ‘clot’ Sunday after a recent illness, fainting, and concussion.

Plus, a fainting Clinton is news if only because of the suspicion it will generate.

Emergency rooms are full of the faint, the fainting, and the faint-hearted.

We will seek out our fainting couches if the president dares forget the first name of one of his sacred interrogators.

One fainting-fit succeeded to another; till at last Alphonse began to be seriously alarmed.

Mrs. Ducksmith quickly recovered from her fainting attack, and gently pushed the solicitous Aristide away.

To himself he added: "And what's more, my child, you'll have a little fainting affair in a few minutes, if you don't have a feed."

The Sunday evening after I came down here I had a sort of half-fainting-fit, coming home from church.

I was nearly fainting, and at the moment of writing these lines I see the whole scene over again in all its imposing reality.

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On this page you'll find 63 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fainting, such as: bewildering, dizzy, rapid, confused, faint, and fast.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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