swooned
past simple and past participle ofswoon
swoon
verb[I]
uk/swuːn/us/swuːn/tofeela lot ofpleasure,love, etc. because of something or someone:
Theaudienceswoonedwithdelight.
old-fashionedliterary
tofaint
Feeling pleasure and happiness
- (as) pleased as Punchidiom
- ASMR
- be dancing in the streetsidiom
- be floating on airidiom
- be full of the joys of springidiom
- cheery
- chipper
- chirpily
- chirpy
- chuffed
- gruntled
- happily
- happy camper
- happy placeidiom
- jaunty
- shining
- thrilled
- thrilled to bitsidiom
- walk
- walk on airidiom
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Losing consciousness
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swooned
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Kafka would haveswoonedat the byzantine complexity of it all.
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Critics have alsoswoonedover the group's comedic double entendres and high-energy cuts.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The womanswoonedaway, but recovered after an hour, and observed something moving under a scarlet cloth (sakilat).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The consequence was that the poor girl immediatelyswooned, and has never from that moment been in her senses.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Heroinesswooned, wept, and acted as if enraptured, delirious, or frenzied, whenever confronted with something out of the ordinary.
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- run-sb-out-of-town-on-a-rail
- run sb ragged
- run-sb-ragged
- run sb/sth down
- run-sb-sth-down
- run sb/sth over
- run-sb-sth-over
- run sb/sth through
- run-sb-sth-through
- run sb/sth to ground
- run-sb-sth-to-ground
- runs-in-family
- run someone close
- run someone out of town (on a rail)
- run someone ragged
- run someone/something down
- run someone/something over
- run someone/something to ground
- run something by someone
- run something in
- run (something) into something/someone
- run something up
- run sth by/past sb
- run sth by sb
- run-sth-by-sb