faint
verb/feɪnt/
/feɪnt/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they faint | /feɪnt/ /feɪnt/ |
| he / she / it faints | /feɪnts/ /feɪnts/ |
| past simple fainted | /ˈfeɪntɪd/ /ˈfeɪntɪd/ |
| past participle fainted | /ˈfeɪntɪd/ /ˈfeɪntɪd/ |
| -ing form fainting | /ˈfeɪntɪŋ/ /ˈfeɪntɪŋ/ |
- to become unconscious when not enough blood is going to your brain, usually because of the heat, a shock, etc. synonym pass out
- to faint from hunger
- Suddenly the woman in front of me fainted.
- I'm nearly fainting with the heat in here.
- (informal) I almost fainted (= I was very surprised) when she told me.
Extra ExamplesTopics Health problemsc1- He was so pale she thought he was going to faint.
- He would faint at the sight of blood.
- She almost fainted with shock.
- Almost fainting from lack of air, Joel could only answer in choked gasps.
- She thought she would faint from sheer happiness.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- almost
- nearly
- be about to
- be going to
- at
- from
- with
- …
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘feigned’, also ‘feeble, cowardly’, surviving in faint-hearted): from Old French faint, past participle of faindre, from Latin fingere ‘mould, contrive’. Compare with feint.
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