fainting

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faint

(fānt)

adj. faint·er, faint·est

a. Done with little strength or vigor; feeble: a faint attempt to apologize.

b. So weak as to be difficult to perceive; a faint light in the distance; a faint echo.

c. Lacking clarity or distinctness: a faint recollection.

d. Small in degree or amount; meager: faint chance of getting a raise.

2. Lacking conviction, boldness, or courage; timid: a tourist who is faint at heart.

3. Likely to fall into a faint; dizzy and weak: felt faint for a moment.

An abrupt, usually brief loss of consciousness, generally associated with failure of normal blood circulation.

intr.v. faint·ed, faint·ing, faints

1. To fall into a usually brief state of unconsciousness.

2. Archaic To weaken in purpose or spirit.

[Middle English, deceitful, cowardly, from Old French, past participle of feindre, to feign; see feign.]

faint′er n.

faint′ly adv.

faint′ness n.

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Translations

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fainting

n. desmayo; desfallecimiento;

___ spell → desmayo.

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I began dimly to understand that my fainting fit must have presented symptoms far more serious than the fainting fits of women in general.

I am not one of the fainting sort myself; but I feel it, I can tell you.

But the doctor has no idea, and Miss Hoighty has no idea, of the true cause of your fainting fit.

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They two were a little apart from the others, and Francis was fainting. A hand upon his throat

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Phlipote watched mechanically the double file of haughty figures passing before them: then, on a sudden, with a feeble cry, falls fainting into the arms of Claude.

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Having a flask with brandy in it, he revived the fainting man, and led him to the inn.

(after an early breakfast that morning), without taking food: he could only attribute the fainting fit to that cause.

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What is there wonderful, what is there unaccountable, in her fainting under such circumstances as these?"

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When from dark error's subjugation My words of passionate exhortation Had wrenched thy fainting spirit free; And writhing prone in thine affliction Thou didst recall with malediction The vice that had encompassed thee: And when thy slumbering conscience, fretting By recollection's torturing flame, Thou didst reveal the hideous setting Of thy life's current ere I came: When suddenly I saw thee sicken, And weeping, hide thine anguished face, Revolted, maddened, horror-stricken, At memories of foul disgrace.

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All the time that astronauts spend floating weightless can trigger fainting and dizziness when they once again feel Earth's gravity, but the new research finds that a two-hour daily workout while in space might eliminate the problem.

Astronauts: Exercise More in Space, Faint Less on Earth

CATHERINE W GICHUKI DOHA AROUND six in 1,000 people have an episode of fainting once a year, according to Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) consultant of Internal Medicine Dr Amal El-Hawari.

Six in 1,000 experience fainting once a year, says HMC expert

News that they saw the 21-year-old star briefly fainting, adding that "she quickly recovered before leaving."