faint
/feɪnt/ verb B2- To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions). · A fainting fit.
- To lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
- To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
He/she/it faints · Past fainted · Past participle fainted · -ing form fainting
Verb forms
- Base form
- faint
- He/she/it
- faints
- Past
- fainted
- Past participle
- fainted
- -ing form
- fainting
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This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy’s bark sounded quite faint in the distance.
“Well, there was Mystery,” the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, “—Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling—the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: _he_ taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.”
The young lady betrayed a faint interest.
The house was as still as still, but he thought he could just catch the faintest scratch-scratch in the world--a noise as faint as that of a wasp walking on a window-pane--the dry scratch of a snake’s scales on brick-work.
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