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   swoon

   /swo͞on/

   verb

   • 1. faint from extreme emotion: "he swooned at the sight of blood on his hero's sleeve"
   • ▪ be emotionally affected by someone or something that one admires; become ecstatic: "teenagers swoon over Japanese pop singers"

   noun

   • 1. an occurrence of fainting: literary "I fell down in a swoon"

   Word Origin Middle English: the verb from obsolete swown ‘fainting’, the noun from aswoon ‘in a faint’, both from Old Englishgeswōgen ‘overcome’.

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • S

     1

   • W

     4

   • O

     1

   • O

     1

   • N

     1

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