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Swoon vs Aswoon - What's the difference?

swoon | aswoon |

As a noun swoon

is swan.

As an adverb aswoon is

in a swoon.

swoon

English

Alternative forms

* swound (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A faint.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
    • "I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon . How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!"
  • An infatuation

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) to faint, to lose consciousness
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1918 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The Gods of Mars , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage= I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a moment too soon. The girl had swooned . }}
  • to be overwhelmed by emotion (especially infatuation)

    • Derived terms

    * swooningly

    Synonyms

    * (faint) black out, faint, lose consciousness, pass out * (be overwhelmed by emotion)

    aswoon

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In a swoon.
  • * 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p.369:
    • 'This is your daughter whom you so commended / As wife for me; the other on my oath / Shall be my heir as I have long intended, / They are the children of your body, both.' [...] / On hearing this Griselda fell aswoon / In piteous joy, but made recovery / And called her children to her.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , date=Summer , year=2003 , month= , first= , last= , author=Nicole Louise Reid , coauthors= , title=Honeydew , volume=39 , issue=3 , page=596 , magazine=The Southern Review , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=Anyhow, he came right over, and I was near aswoon but breathed real deep and gripped hold of the cash tray and managed not to tumble to the floor-even if the quarters did a little dance in their bin with me tugging to stay up. }}

    References

    (Webster 1913)