Swin

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Archaic term meaning to faint away, lose consciousness, or grow weak and faint from exhaustion or dizziness
2. An old verb describing the act of swooning, growing dizzy, or sinking into a faint or languishing state
3. Used in older English for fainting or fading into a weakened, dazed condition, as though losing strength

Etymology: In Middle English, "swinen" meant to faint or swoon, and it probably descends from Old English "swindan," meaning to waste away or dwindle. The sense of collapsing or losing strength seems to have been the older core, and the idea of fainting grew out of it. The verb is now archaic, so readers mostly meet it in older texts and dialect glossaries.