SWOON

I. intransitive verb Etymology: Middle English swounen, probably back-formation from swouning, swowening, from iswowen, aswoune, from Old English geswōgen in a ~ Date: 13th century 1. faint , to become enraptured , droop , fade , ~er noun ~ingly adverb II. noun Date: 13th century 1. a partial or total loss of consciousness, a state of bewilderment or ecstasy ; daze , rapture , a state of suspended animation ; torpor , ~y adjective