fainting
昏厥,昏倒,晕倒,晕厥
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Definitions
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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.
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- : to lose consciousness temporarily.
- : to lose brightness.
- : Archaic. to grow weak; lose spirit or courage.
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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.