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fainting
adjective as in dizzying
noun as in blackout
noun as in stupor
Example Sentences
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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