LekhoriLekhoriLacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness
I felt faint after my fifth gin and tonic.
Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected.
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
The act of fainting, syncope.
She suffered another faint.
The state of one who has fainted; a swoon.
From Middle English faynt, feynt (“weak; feeble”), from Old French faint, feint (“feigned; negligent; sluggish”), past participle of feindre, faindre (“to feign; sham; work negligently”), from Latin f...
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To lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
November 12, 1711, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye.