Definition of "fainted" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of faint. (verb)

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• "The man fainted from the wound, and his comrades covered him with their shields, at the same time showering missiles upon Pullo and preventing him from advancing further."
• "And she gave not over reproaching him, till the blood streamed from his nostrils and he again fainted away."
• "As he thus echoed the cry of triumph uttered by the Scots when bursting open the outer gate of the tower, the foundations of the building shook, and Lady Mar, almost insensible with terror, received the exhausted body of her husband into her arms; he fainted from the transport his weakened frame was unable to bear."