Alexandra Bracken

When I first read 'Outlander' a few years ago, I was shocked to find that Jamie was the complete package: incredibly smart, incredibly witty, strong but emotionally vulnerable, passionate to a fault - and, well, the Scottish accent doesn't hurt! I actually stopped reading at several points to swoon over something he said... he's really that good.

American Author

Becky Albertalli

When I read, I don't need a character to look like me, act like me, or think like me. I don't need to have my heart broken. I don't need to be surprised or amused or challenged, and I don't need to swoon.

Charles Portis

A reporter from 'The Times' wanted to arm-wrestle, and as I recall, he kept challenging me. So we went at it, and there was a pop. His arm broke. Very strange. He went into a kind of swoon.

Susan Orlean

I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the idea of a free day arriving unexpectedly, laid out like a gift.

American Journalist

Alice Walker

I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.

Honore de Balzac

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

French Novelist

Walter Savage Landor

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

English Poet

Alissa White-Gluz

Lzzy Hale could sing me the dictionary, and I would swoon. She is so amazingly talented, and her voice is absolutely delicious.

Canadian Musician

Celia Imrie

While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

British Actress

Dan Jenkins

There's nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.

Use 'swoon' to describe fainting caused by overwhelming feelings, not from illness or heat.

Extreme Emotion

'Swoon' is less common now; it has an old-fashioned or literary tone.

Historical Use

Sometimes, 'swoon' is used figuratively to mean being overcome by a feeling, not literally fainting.

Figurative Language

'Swoon' as a noun emphasizes the physical condition, think of someone losing consciousness.

Physical State

A 'swoon' can be due to shock or emotion, not just physical causes like illness.

Not Just Illness

Use 'swoon' to describe overwhelming approval or excitement towards something or someone.

Intense Admiration

When using 'swoon' as excitement, it suggests a physical reaction to emotional excitement.

Emotional Reaction

'Swoon' usually has a positive connotation, implying that the reaction is pleasant or enjoyable.

Positive Connotation

'Swoon' in terms of admiration is often used in a romantic or idolizing context.

Romantic Context

Often, 'swoon' exaggerates the level of excitement or infatuation someone is feeling.

Exaggeration

 written in English in the fifteenth century couldn't hear obviously and that Epona's otro down in a swoon and certainly a great while and when she might speak she said but no spoilers you got to go read it anyway I want to draw your attention to the word might there it doesn't mean

What does it take to...

 And then he's off, launching into more talk about rare birds and algaes and strange aquatic plants. And don't get me wrong, that was really fascinating, you know, the biotic community unplugged, kind of thing. It's great, but I was in love. And my head was swooning over that

Dan Barber: How I fell...

 then he's off launching it to more talk about rare birds and algie's and strange aquatic plants and don't get me wrong I was really fascinating you know the biotic community unplugged its kind of thing you know it's great but I was in love and my head was swooning over that

Swoon

Extreme Emotion

Historical Use

Figurative Language

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