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See definition of swooning on Dictionary.com
  • as inunconscious
  • as instupor

synonyms for swooning

  • comatose
  • paralyzed
  • senseless
  • cold
  • out
  • raving
  • benumbed
  • blacked out
  • bombed
  • dead to the world
  • drowsy
  • entranced
  • feeling no pain
  • flattened
  • in a trance
  • inanimate
  • inert
  • insensate
  • insensible
  • knocked
  • lethargic
  • numb
  • on the canvas
  • out like a light
  • palsied
  • passed out
  • put away
  • stunned
  • stupefied
  • torpid
  • tranced
  • zonked

antonyms for swooning

MOST RELEVANT
  • awake
  • aware
  • conscious
  • decided
  • intended
  • intentional
  • knowing
  • consciousness
  • wakefulness
  • activity
  • interest
  • life
  • liveliness
  • sensibility
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How to use swooning in a sentence

In full, exquisite exhaustion, “Avalon” examines the debris of relationships, as told from the point of view of a suave loner, all backed by plush and luscious oceans of saxophone swoon.
ALMOST ANARCHY: THE STYLE COUNCIL AND THE SMOOTH SOUNDS OF SOPHISTI-POPMINA TAVAKOLINOVEMBER 20, 2020WASHINGTON POST
There’s something else to mention about the stocks’ swoon last month.
STOCKS UP, CRUDE DOWN AS INVESTORS BRACE FOR A VOLATILE WEEKBERNHARD WARNERNOVEMBER 2, 2020FORTUNE
No sooner had she picked up the spindle, than she pricked her hand with it, and fell swooning.
THE STORY OF THE DUCHESS OF CICOGNE AND OF MONSIEUR DE BOULINGRINANATOLE FRANCE
Everything swam before his eyes as if he were on the point of swooning.
THE CHILD OF PLEASUREGABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO
For the first time in four days he remembered his picking it up when Mrs. Hal Folsom collapsed at sight of Jake's swooning.
WARRIOR GAPCHARLES KING
I am not given to swooning, so that, after the first moment, I was quite alive to my exact situation.
THE STRAND MAGAZINE, VOLUME V, ISSUE 28, APRIL 1893VARIOUS
Lady visitor before swooning has sufficient presence of mind to ring the bell for assistance.
MR. PUNCH'S HISTORY OF MODERN ENGLAND VOL. IV OF IV.CHARLES L. GRAVES
His nearness was suffocating her, she flung herself into his arms, and their lips met in a long, swooning kiss.
THE DWELLING PLACE OF LIGHT, COMPLETEWINSTON CHURCHILL
And while the panther fell back roaring, and before it could prepare for a new spring, Taurus Antinor had seized the swooning man.
"UNTO CAESAR"BARONESS EMMUSKA ORCZY
How Mrs. Nuttall kept herself from swooning dead away was a mystery to her for ever afterwards.
GRIFB. L. (BENJAMIN LEOPOLD) FARJEON
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