swoon

verb

🔊/swuːn/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they swoon	🔊/swuːn/ 🔊/swuːn/
he / she / it swoons	🔊/swuːnz/ 🔊/swuːnz/
past simple swooned	🔊/swuːnd/ 🔊/swuːnd/
past participle swooned	🔊/swuːnd/ 🔊/swuːnd/
-ing form swooning	🔊/ˈswuːnɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈswuːnɪŋ/

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[intransitive] swoon (over somebody) to feel very excited, emotional, etc. about somebody that you think is sexually attractive痴迷；对（某人）神魂颠倒
- He's used to having women swooning over him.他对有女人痴迷于他司空见惯了。🔊🔊
Topics Feelingsc2
[intransitive] (old-fashioned) to become unconscious昏厥；昏倒 synonym faint

Word OriginMiddle English: the verb from obsolete swown ‘fainting’, the noun from aswoon ‘in a faint’, both from Old English geswōgen ‘overcome’.

noun

🔊/swuːn/

[singular] (old-fashioned)

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