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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FAINTING

ppr. Falling into a swoon; failing; losing strength or courage; becoming feeble or timid.

FAINTING

n.A temporary loss of strength, color and respiration; syncope; deliquium; leipothymy; a swoon.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FAINTING

FAINTING Faint "ing, n.

Defn: Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak. Fainting fit, a fainting or swoon; syncope. [Colloq. ]

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