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swoon

/swoon/US // swun //UK // (swuːn) //

晕倒,晕倒了,晕倒在地,晕厥

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to faint; lose consciousness.
    • : to enter a state of hysterical rapture or ecstasy: The teenagers swooned at the sight of the singing star.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a faint or fainting fit; syncope.

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Examples

  • Some even see the swoon as a perfectly understandable and necessary correction.

  • Meanwhile, longtime bulls—some of whom have likened Bitcoin to the indestructible honey badger—are likely to regard the current price swoon as an inevitable correction rather than an existential threat.

  • After the initial swoon, the markets climbed, the economy grew, employers continued to hire, and wages nudged up.

  • Later, his turn as a lothario in the box office hit Crazy Stupid Love made him even more swoon-worthy.

  • More than anything else, teenagers seemed to swoon over tenderness and vulnerability that the Beatles expressed in their songs.

  • Long before he took the stage, the mere mention of his name sent this crowd into a swoon.

  • Like a verbal snake charmer, he could swoon them into missteps, even confessions.

  • Then Dylan McDermott turns around in an FBI vest and a Dirty Harry attitude, and you swoon.

  • I have read that Chinamen tie their wives to beams in the roof and lash them with leather thongs until they swoon.

  • On the deck she tottered and fell in the dead swoon of exhaustion.

  • He had fainted and fallen down out of his chair in a deadly swoon.

  • One day after brooding deeply over these matters Laulewasikaw fell upon the earth in a swoon.

  • But he had hardly risen when he pressed his hand upon his heart, and falling back in a swoon was borne home to die.