fainting 的 3 个定义
faint·er, faint·est.
- lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
- feeble or slight: faint resistance; faint praise; a faint resemblance.
- feeling weak, dizzy, or exhausted; about to lose consciousness: faint with hunger.
- (5)
- to lose consciousness temporarily.
- to lose brightness.
- Archaic. to grow weak; lose spirit or courage.
- a temporary loss of consciousness resulting from a decreased flow of blood to the brain; a swoon: to fall into a faint.
fainting 近义词
lose consciousness
更多fainting例句
- 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.