- 1[intransitive] swoon (over somebody) to feel very excited, emotional, etc. about someone that you think is sexually attractive, so that you almost become unconscious He's used to having women swooning over him.
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- 2[intransitive] (old-fashioned) to become unconscious synonym faint
swoon
verbNAmE//swun//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they swoon he / she / it swoons
past simple swooned
-ing form swooning
to go into a swoonSee swoon in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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