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swoon
verb as in faint
Strongest match
Example Sentences
On the day he received the call from Burr, Fauth sold between $97,000 and $280,000 worth of shares in six companies — including several that were hit particularly hard in the market swoon and economic downturn.
Some even see the swoon as a perfectly understandable and necessary correction.
Meanwhile, longtime bulls—some of whom have likened Bitcoin to the indestructible honey badger—are likely to regard the current price swoon as an inevitable correction rather than an existential threat.
After the initial swoon, the markets climbed, the economy grew, employers continued to hire, and wages nudged up.
Later, his turn as a lothario in the box office hit Crazy Stupid Love made him even more swoon-worthy.
More than anything else, teenagers seemed to swoon over tenderness and vulnerability that the Beatles expressed in their songs.
Long before he took the stage, the mere mention of his name sent this crowd into a swoon.
Like a verbal snake charmer, he could swoon them into missteps, even confessions.
Then Dylan McDermott turns around in an FBI vest and a Dirty Harry attitude, and you swoon.
I have read that Chinamen tie their wives to beams in the roof and lash them with leather thongs until they swoon.
On the deck she tottered and fell in the dead swoon of exhaustion.
He had fainted and fallen down out of his chair in a deadly swoon.
One day after brooding deeply over these matters Laulewasikaw fell upon the earth in a swoon.
But he had hardly risen when he pressed his hand upon his heart, and falling back in a swoon was borne home to die.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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