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Definition of Faint

Faint Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady." Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound. Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance. The act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a swoon. [R.] See Fainting, n. 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, n. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent. To decay; to disappear; to vanish. To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken. Related Definitions: Act, Acted, And, As, Away, Become, Bodily, Bright, Cause, Color, Control, Courage, Cowardly, Decay, Dejected, Dejection, Depress, Depressed, Despondent, Disappear, Dispirited, Distinctness, Done, Energy, Exhibiting, Faint, Fainted, Fainting, Fair, Fatigue, Feeble, Feebly, Forcible, Grow, Hardly, Heart, Hunger, Has, In, Inclined, Into, Lacking, Lady, Languid, Lose, Loud, Manner, Mental, Not, Of, One, Or, Perceptible, Performed, Resistance, See, Sharp, Sink, Slight, Sometimes, Sound, Spirit, State, Strength, Striking, Swoon, The, Thirst, Timorous, To, Vanish, Vigor, Wanting, Weak, Weaken, Who, With, Won

Faint Quotations My mind is led astray by every faint rustle. Mason Cooley All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate. Nellie Bly Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. William Blake My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. Erma Bombeck It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. Marcel Proust

Faint Translations faint in Afrikaans is flou word, swak faint in Danish is svag faint in Dutch is zwak faint in German is matt, Ohnmacht faint in Italian is deliquio faint in Norwegian is svak, besvime, matt faint in Spanish is desmayarse, deliquio, desmayo

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