swound

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A form of swoon — A faint.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounswound (plural swounds)

plural swounds

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of swoon.

    It flung the blood into my head, and I fell down in a swound.

    1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
verbswound (third-person singular simple present swounds, present participle swounding, simple past and past participle swounded)

present singular third person swounds · participle present swounding · participle past swounded · past swounded

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of swoon.
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