Meanings
nounswound (plural swounds)
plural swounds
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
obsoleteObsolete form of swoon.
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APAswound. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/swound
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