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fainted

verb as in lose consciousness

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There’s a faint gospel vibe to both these songs — they wouldn’t feel out of place in, say, a Charlie Puth collaboration — that sets the stage for everything to come.

From Vox

The air starts to cool down and a trained nose can begin to smell the faint notes of mushrooms in the air.

From Eater

When the electrons struck pure water ice, the researchers saw, the frozen liquid gave off a whitish glow with a faint blue-green tinge.

Entering Badlands National Park on the less-traveled Sage Creek Road is not for the faint of heart.

Our visual system can discriminate between some ten million colors and light fluxes that span about 14 orders of magnitude from faint to bright.

He fainted several times in the courtroom, yet the judge refused to allow doctors in the courtroom.

When he expresses concern over her bruised and disheveled appearance, she lies and tells him that she fainted.

A House of Lords spokesman refused to identify which of the boys had fainted.

Women fainted, men sobbed, while children in shock picked their way through the crowds of hysterical adults.

The dog was in the 125th Street subway station in Harlem at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, when his owner fainted.

Mr. Mayne said something, but Malcolm never knew what it was, for Winifred fainted, and would have fallen had he not caught her.

I suppose I must have fainted at the shock and the pain, but the doctor says I shall be out in two or three days at the outside.

But there was no trace of anything of the kind, and Hazlet merely appeared to have fainted and fallen suddenly.

The train drew up at a platform, and as Max started back into his seat, the carriage-door opened, and Ella Bedford fainted.

The six oarsmen soon gained the spot where the little boat lay, and took on board Raoul de Pont Brillant, who had fainted.

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fainted, such as: black out, swoon, succumb, keel over, pass out, and flicker.

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

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