SWOONED Synonyms: 12 Similar and Opposite Words

swooned

verb

past tense of swoon

as in fainted

to lose consciousness easily swooned at the sight of blood

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Recent Examples of swooned Meta has swooned as the company fights litigation alleging that the firm seeded addictive behavior in children. — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026 Traders flooded back into the market to snap up shares in tech companies that had recently swooned over doubts that the huge investments will yield adequate returns. — ABC News, 30 July 2026 Since the outset of the competition, the team had been swooned over for the deftness of its skills and tipped for golden glory. — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 17 July 2026 Media swooned over Graham Platner for months despite Dem's brewing controversies. — FOXNews.com, 16 July 2026 Fans swooned over the thoughtful gift in her comments. — Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026 Another couple came out, and Yang and Rogers swooned at her from the side of the stage. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026 Taking partial profits can protect against whatever happens next in the market that swooned Friday and bounced Monday. — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 8 June 2026 Add it all up and investors swooned. — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 14 May 2026

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Their children, meanwhile, were euphoric about this ghoulish interruption to their day, although some experienced nausea, and the theater kids, who felt things deeply, wept and fainted, or did their best to faint.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026
Allegedly, so many cinema-goers vomited and fainted during the initial screenings of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973) that theatre staff had to hand out smelling salts.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026

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But that agreement, which had already effectively collapsed, officially expired on Monday with no sign of a breakthrough and as tensions have escalated.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026
If Biden had abandoned that commitment and stayed in Afghanistan, the Taliban would certainly have resumed their military offensive, and the Afghan army might have collapsed anyway in the long run.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

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