See Also: Faint(medicine)
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faint verb. ME.
[from the adjective.]
verb intrans. Grow or become faint; lose heart or courage, give way; decline, fade, flag, wilt. ME.
E. Bowen The sky shone..fainting down to the fretted line, but was being steadily drained by the dark below. J. Colville The P.M. went to France to bolster up the fainting French morale. D. Hall Water its foliage as well as the soil, or you may..find your basil has 'fainted.'
verb intrans. Lose consciousness, esp. temporarily through a fall in blood pressure; fall in a swoon. Also foll. by away. LME.
fainting fit a faint, a swoon.
J. Steinbeck That big stupid horse fainted from the heat. E. Ferber For the first time in her healthy twenty-odd years Leslie Lynnton had fainted dead away.
verb trans. Make faint, enfeeble. Now rare. LME.
Shakespeare Henry VIII It faints me To think what follows.
fainter noun E19.
faintingly adverb (now rare) in a fainting manner, like a person who is fainting L16.