faints in English

noun

1

a sudden loss of consciousness.

she hit the floor in a dead faint

synonyms: blackout, fainting fit, loss of consciousness, swoon, syncope

verb

1

lose consciousness for a short time because of a temporarily insufficient supply of oxygen to the brain.

Get the person to lie down on his or her back and elevate the feet higher than the head to keep adequate blood flow to the brain, which will prevent fainting .

synonyms: pass out, lose consciousness, black out, keel over, swoon, flake out, conk out, zonk out, go out like a light

noun

• blackout, fainting fit, loss of consciousness, swoon, syncope
• deliquium, swoon, syncope

verb

• pass out, lose consciousness, black out, keel over, swoon, flake out, conk out, zonk out, go out like a light
• pass out, swoon, conk

Use "faints" in a sentence

1. Every time he washes his hair, he faints in agony

2. Upon hearing this, the steward faints in distress and grief.

3. Heatstroke of a beggar faints, passerby crowds around, eristic in succession.

4. However, Gallade unleashes a Feint and in one hit faints the fire horse.

5. As nouns the difference between syncope and Apocope is that syncope is a loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon while Apocope is (prosody) the loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word.

6. It was considered that the epidemic was hysterical, that a previous polio epidemic had rendered the population emotionally vulnerable, and that a three-hour parade, producing 20 faints on the day before the first outbreak, had been the specific trigger.

7. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎[1]: Even now my heart faints before the recollection of it, as she stood and smiled at our Awed faces, and I would give half my remaining time upon this earth to see her once like that again.

8. It is worth to call upon a neurologist when the following complaints and problems exist: Algesias, (headache, cervical, lumbar, neuralgic pains), neurodegenerative diseases (movement disorders, dementia), epilepsies and other indispositions leading to faints, diseases of spine and spinal marrow, diseases of peripheral nerve fibres and muscles