swound
/swound, swoond/US // swaʊnd, swund //UK // (swaʊnd) //
抡起,抡,围墙,游荡
Definitions
- 1
Archaic.
- : swoon.
Examples
When my child heard this, she gave a cry of joy, and fell back in a swound with her head against the wall.
A silence that was like a swound fell on the instant, and the light within went out at a puff.
I poured out my tale at one breath and in one sentence, and when it ended my mother was in her swound.
Hereupon my poor child was torn from me, and I fell in a swound upon the steps.
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