swoon
verb
[ swuːn ]
• faint, especially from extreme emotion.
• "Frankie's mother swooned and had to be helped to the headmaster's office"
• be overcome with admiration, adoration, or other strong emotion.
• "you can have them swooning over you with a few well-placed words"
swoon
noun
• an occurrence of fainting.
• "I fell down in a swoon"
Origin:
Middle English: the verb from obsolete swown ‘fainting’, the noun from aswoon ‘in a faint’, both from Old English geswōgen ‘overcome’.
