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Faint
FAINT, a. [L. vanus, whence to vanish. Eng. to wane.]
1. weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, to be rendered faint by excessive evacuations.
2. Weak; feeble; languid; exhausted; as faint with fatigue, hunger or thirst.
3. Weak, as color; not bright or vivid; not strong; as a faint color; a faint red or blue; a faint light.
4. Feeble; weak, as sound; not loud; as a faint sound; a faint voice.
5. Imperfect; feeble; not striking; as a faint resemblance or image.
6. Cowardly; timorous. A faint heart never wins a fair lady.
7. Feeble; not vigorous; not active; as a faint resistance; a faint exertion.
8. Dejected; depressed; dispirited.
My heart is faint. Lam 1.
FAINT, v.i.
1. To lose the animal functions; to lose strength and color, and become senseless and motionless; to swoon; sometimes with away. he fainted for loss of blood.
On hearing the honor intended her, she fainted away.
2. To become feeble; to decline or fail in strength and vigor; to be weak.
If I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way. Mark 8.
3. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit.
Let not your hearts faint. Deu 20.
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. Prov 24.
4. To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
Gilded clouds, while we gaze on them, faint before the eye.
FAINT, v.t. To deject; to depress; to weaken. [Unusual.]
faint appears in definitions for these words:
Adumbrant Adumbrate Adumbration Appall Asphyxy Bating Believe Break Bulimy Dead-heartedness Deaden Debile Debilitate Debility Deliquium Demarkation Die Dimly Dimness Distant Droop Evanid Fade Fag Faint Fainthearted Faintish Faintishness Faintly Faintness Fall Fearful Feeble Full Glimmer Glimmering Glimpse Heart Hearted Heartless Heartlessly Indistinct Indistinctness Lack Leer Lipothymous Lipothymy Mastich Melt Midway Opium Pale Phosphoresce Phosphorescence Phosphorescent Prey Rainbow Relinquish Reproach Rudely Sea-green Shadow Shadowing Shadowy Sickly Sorrel Spiritless Support Swelt Swelter Sweltering Swoon Swooning Syncopy Thrill Touch Twilight Undergo Unfainting Weakly Yield
Adumbrant Adumbrate Adumbration Appall Asphyxy Bating Believe Break Bulimy Dead-heartedness Deaden Debile Debilitate Debility Deliquium Demarkation Die Dimly Dimness Distant Droop Evanid Fade Fag Faint Fainthearted Faintish Faintishness Faintly Faintness Fall Fearful Feeble Full Glimmer Glimmering Glimpse Heart Hearted Heartless Heartlessly Indistinct Indistinctness Lack Leer Lipothymous Lipothymy Mastich Melt Midway Opium Pale Phosphoresce Phosphorescence Phosphorescent Prey Rainbow Relinquish Reproach Rudely Sea-green Shadow Shadowing Shadowy Sickly Sorrel Spiritless Support Swelt Swelter Sweltering Swoon Swooning Syncopy Thrill Touch Twilight Undergo Unfainting Weakly Yield
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