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fainting

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈfeɪntɪŋ//

An act of collapsing into a state of temporary unconsciousness.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of faintpresent participle and gerund of faint

Etymology

From Middle English feinting, equivalent to faint + -ing.

noun

  1. 1

    An act of collapsing into a state of temporary unconsciousness.

    fainting fit

Forms

plural
faintings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).