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What does the word faint mean?

Part of speech: verb intransitive

To swoon; become spiritless; despond; grow weak; fade; vanish.

Part of speech: noun

Faintness.

Part of speech: adverb

FAINTLY.

Part of speech: adjective

Despondent; timid; weak.

Usage examples for faint

There were faint squeakings. – Operation Terror by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
I often turn faint, and only keep up by an effort of will; this will not last through the summer- and I am content it should be so. – Timar's Two Worlds by MÃ³r JÃ³kai
" I shall faint if I lie here any longer," he said at last. – When London Burned by G. A. Henty

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