Definition of faint

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Faint (n.) To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.

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Faint :: Faint (superl.) Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance..
Swooning :: Swoon (n.) A fainting fit; syncope.
Faint :: Faint (superl.) Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound..
Faintness :: Faintness (n.) Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection.
Goneness :: Goneness (n.) A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger..
Lipothymy :: Lipothymy (n.) A fainting; a swoon.
Shimmer :: Shimmer (v. i.) To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.
Faintness :: Faintness (n.) The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control..
Overtone :: Overtone (n.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or partial tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone..
Fade :: Fade (a.) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color..
Faintling :: Faintling (a.) Timorous; feeble-minded.
Lipothymous :: Lipothymous (a.) Pertaining, or given, to swooning; fainting..
Distant :: Distant (a.) Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance..
Vocule :: Vocule (n.) A short or weak utterance; a faint or feeble sound, as that heard on separating the lips in pronouncing p or b..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type..
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Faintly representative; hence, typical..
Faint :: Faint (superl.) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst..
Faints :: Faints (n.pl.) The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil..
Faint :: Faint (n.) To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
Droop :: Droop (v. i.) To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped..
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