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say it: swoon
swoon is a noun and verb meaning "a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain". It is pronounced /ˈswun/ — swoon. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for swoon come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.