swoon

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 swo͝on

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A faint.
    — She dandled it, and dancet it up and doune, / Not ceasing till she rais'd it from his swoune.
  2. An infatuation.
动词 v.
  1. To faint, to lose consciousness. literally
    — I threw myself down on the island ground, like a dead man, and drowned in desolation swooned away, nor did I return to my senses till next morning, when the sun rose and revived me.
  2. To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation. broadly
  3. To overwhelm with emotion, especially infatuation. transitive
    — That plush mustache of yours has completely swooned me!
  4. To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection.
    — The girls swooned at the picture of their favorite actor.

词形变化

swoons plural swound alternative,obsolete swoons present,singular,third-person swooning participle,present swooned participle,past swooned past swound alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
Swoonatra swoon hypothesis swoon set aswoon swooner swooningly swoonless swoonsome swoonworthy swoony unswooning

词源

词源 1
From Middle English swoune, swone, from the verb (see below).
词源 2
From Middle English swounen, swonen (“to faint”), and aswoune (“in a swoon”), both ultimately from Old English ġeswōgen (“insensible, senseless, dead”), past participle of swōgan (“to make a sound, overrun, suffocate”) (compare Old English āswōgan (“to cover over, overcome”)), from Proto-West Germanic *swōgan, from Proto-Germanic *swōganą (“to make a noise”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂gʰ-.
Cognates
Cognate with German Low German swogen, swögen (“to faint, sigh, groan”), Dutch zwoegen (“to groan, breathe heavily”), dialectal Norwegian søgja (“to whistle, hum, talk loudly”). More at sough.
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