Definition of faint

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Faint (v. t.) To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken.

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Wanhope :: Wanhope (n.) Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman..
Glimmering :: Glimmering (n.) A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.
Shimmer :: Shimmer (n.) A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer..
Glimmer :: Glimmer (v. i.) To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp..
Faint :: Faint (v. i.) To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See Fainting, n..
Sweltered :: Swelt (v. t.) To overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint; to swelter..
Faintness :: Faintness (n.) The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control..
Faint :: Faint (n.) To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
Nyctalopia :: Nyctalopia (n.) A disease of the eye, in consequence of which the patient can see well in a faint light or at twilight, but is unable to see during the day or in a strong light; day blindness..
Ghost :: Ghost (n.) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea..
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..
Die :: Die (v. i.) To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc..
Rich :: Rich (superl.) Not faint or delicate; vivid; as, a rich color..
Faintness :: Faintness (n.) Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection.
Small :: Small (adv.) Not loudly; faintly; timidly.
Recovery :: Recovery (n.) Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc..
Lipothymy :: Lipothymy (n.) A fainting; a swoon.
Craven :: Craven (a.) Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless.
Trigenic :: Trigenic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C4H7N3O2, obtained, by the action of the vapor of cyanic acid on cold aldehyde, as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste and faint smell; -- called also ethidene- / ethylidene-biuret..
Twilight :: Twilight (n.) faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.
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