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   swoon

   /swuːn/

   verb

   • 1. faint, especially from extreme emotion: literary "Frankie's mother swooned and had to be helped to the headmaster's office"
   • 2. be overcome with admiration, adoration, or other strong emotion: "you can have them swooning over you with a few well-placed words"

   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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