English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "swoon" is:Om flou te word of bewussyn te verloor, tipies as gevolg van uiterste emosie of fisiese uitputting.Om te word oorweldig of ekstaties betower deur iemand of iets.Om baie swak, duiselig of lighoofdig te voel.Die woord "swoon" kan ook gebruik word as 'n selfstandige naamwoord om te verwys na 'n floute of 'n toestand van oorweldigende emosie of verliefdheid.

Synonyms

  1. faint
  2. pass out
  3. conk

Sentence Examples

  1. He flashed me the kind of smile that probably made most girls swoon.
  2. He will sigh, she will swoon, the damsel will fetch water, much distressed because morning approaches, and for the honour of her lady he would not that they were discovered at last the princess will come to herself and will present her white hands through the grating to the knight, who will kiss them a thousand and a thousand times, bathing them with his tears.
  3. As soon as I entered the house, my wife took me in her arms and kissed me at which, having not been used to the touch of that odious animal for so many years, I fell into a swoon for almost an hour.
  4. There on the bed, seemingly in a swoon, lay poor Lucy, more horribly white and wan-looking than ever.
  5. Expecting the delicate beauty to swoon and collapse in my arms, I steadied myself.
  6. Neither the engineer nor the stoker was dead, and, after remaining for some time in their swoon, had come to themselves.
  7. On seeing this, Don Fernando, persuaded that Luscinda had befooled, slighted, and trifled with him, assailed her before she had recovered from her swoon, and tried to stab her with the dagger that had been found, and would have succeeded had not her parents and those who were present prevented him.
  8. While his idioms would cause my mother to swoon, he seemed sincere and forthright.
  9. The queen, then, being dead, and not in a swoon, we buried her and hardly had we covered her with earth, hardly had we said our last farewells, when, quis talia fando temperet a lachrymis?
  10. By this time the bearded band of duennas, the Trifaldi and all, had vanished from the garden, and those that remained lay stretched on the ground as if in a swoon.