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fainting

/feynt/US // feɪnt //UK // (feɪnt) //

昏厥,昏倒,晕倒,晕厥

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    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.
    • : lacking courage; cowardly; timorous: Faint heart never won fair maid.
    • : Law. unfounded: a faint action.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to lose consciousness temporarily.
    • : to lose brightness.
    • : Archaic. to grow weak; lose spirit or courage.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a temporary loss of consciousness resulting from a decreased flow of blood to the brain; a swoon: to fall into a faint.

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Examples

  • 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.