to faint
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3.2
- verb
- /feɪnt/
:
desmayarse
- After standing for a long time in the heat, she began to feel lightheaded and was afraid she would faint.
She runs into the garden, she faints, he saves her.
- She runs into the garden, she faints, he saves her.
- Yeah look funny monkey faints after smelling his own ass.
- And then I go back and I start fainting.
- And in orchestra and band, I'd be fainting all the time.
- I wasn't going to faint on purpose, but we but we had to fast.
- He had too much to drink and was about to faint.
- Somebody made the cleaner faint when they ran past them from the women's block.
- I came home and as soon as I got off the car I fainted.
- Recently I came across the original edition and I almost fainted.
- But Zoom did on all different people's faces when she fainted.
- So why would you even worry that the guy who was promoting, he fainted.
- And then our second game was playing as a heat wave, trying to make people faint.
Examples
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The day we visited the Accademia, a girl fainted from the apparently unbearable beauty of the statue above her.
Academic text (2002) -
But she fainted before I got to her!
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The girl looked as if she might faint at any moment.
Fiction book (1992) -
I think I'm going to faint.
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NormaIIy I get so nervous that I faint... or run away or sometimes I even get sick.
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Sometimes, I fainted and was carried off to an emergency center.
Academic text (2016) -
Tony has an anxiety disorder, causing him to faint, brought on by stressful family situations.
Academic text (2014) -
As a teenager in the late 1960s, Sarah had anorexia and began to lose weight and faint fairly frequently.
Academic text (2015) -
When my mother Ethel, after her delivery, was told I was a gift, she fainted.
Academic text (2010) -
Don't faint on me.
Synonyms
188
3.7
To faint or lose consciousness suddenly
46
5.4
To suddenly lose consciousness for a short time
27
7.7
To faint because of strong emotion or physical weakness
7
7.3
To fall asleep or become unconscious very quickly
6
9.0
To suddenly faint or fall unconscious
Antonyms
Idioms
3
9.4
Give a weak compliment that sounds positive but actually criticizes someone
Compounds
How Unconscious
Surface Forms
Etymology
Faint as a verb comes from old French feint and Latin fingere, 'to pretend' or 'to make', with the idea of becoming weak; a helpful image is someone becoming so weak that they go limp. So, to faint is to lose consciousness for a short time.