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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Faint \Faint\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Fainted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fainting}.]
1. To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See {Fainting}, noun
Hearing the honor intended her, she fainted away. --Guardian.
If I send them away fasting . . . they will faint by the way. --Mark viii. 8.
2. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. --Prov. xxiv. 10.
3. To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye. --Pope.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fainting \Faint"ing\, noun Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak.
{Fainting fit}, a fainting or swoon; syncope. [Colloq.]
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