aswoon

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/əˈswuːn/

adverb

In a swoon; swooningly.

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Meanings

adverbaswoon (not comparable)
  1. not comparableIn a swoon; swooningly.

    Anyhow, he came right over, and I was near aswoon but breathed real deep and gripped hold of the cash tray and managed not to tumble to the floor-even if the quarters did a little dance in their bin with me tugging to stay up.

    2003 Summer, Nicole Louise Reid, “Honeydew”, in The Southern Review, volume 39, number 3, page 596
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    'This is your daughter whom you so commended / As wife for me; the other on my oath / Shall be my heir as I have long intended, / They are the children of your body, both.' [...] / On hearing this Griselda fell aswoon / In piteous joy, but made recovery / And called her children to her.

    1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 369

Origin

From a- + swoon.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with aswoon

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APA

aswoon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aswoon

MLA

“aswoon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aswoon. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “aswoon,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aswoon.

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