FAINT

I. adjective see: feign Date: 14th century lacking courage and spirit ; cowardly , weak, dizzy, and likely to ~, lacking strength or vigor ; performed, offered, or accomplished weakly or languidly , producing a sensation of ~ness ; oppressive , 5. hardly perceptible ; dim , vague 2a , ~ish adjective ~ishness noun ~ly adverb ~ness noun II. intransitive verb Date: 14th century to lose courage or spirit, to become weak, to lose consciousness because of a temporary decrease in the blood supply to the brain, III. noun Date: 1792 the physiological action of ~ing