as in collapsed
to lose consciousness
the kind of person who faints at the sight of blood
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Recent Examples of fainted
When the man fainted, the event came to an abrupt halt.
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Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
The cold open took place in the Oval Office and parodied a recent White House event about cutting the price of weight loss drugs, during which a man fainted behind the president.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
When a pharmaceutical executive fainted, Kennedy quickly left the room.
—William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2025
At one point, a woman fainted and was lifted out of the church.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
Some devotees fainted at the sight of him.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Most had fainted on the job due to the heat or witnessed a co-worker who did.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 10 Sep. 2025
Michael Scott superfan Sabrina Impacciatore nearly fainted when The Office alums Steve Carell and John Krasinski stopped by set on the very first day of filming the sitcom’s offshoot, The Paper.
—EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
After years of moonlighting at weddings, including one where Lekman fainted inside a giant cake, he was inspired to turn his side hustle into a book.
—Katy Hershberger
august 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fainted
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The sofa was so collapsed that getting up from it felt like core strength training.—
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And then on Thursday, after most of the show had been written, a man collapsed in the Oval Office, generating an instantly meme-able photograph of the president staring into the camera, looking oblivious to efforts to revive the prone victim at stage left.—
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Now is not the time to be swooned by partisan political noise.—
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Sentiment on Oracle has swooned since then, leading to a range of opinions on the stock from Wall Street analysts, detailed below.—
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“Fainted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fainted. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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