Faint is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FAINT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to lose consciousness
• lose consciousness for a short time because of a temporarily insufficient supply of oxygen to the brain
• grow weak or feeble; decline
• 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.
• To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken.
• pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
• lose consciousness temporarily
NOUN:
• a sudden loss of consciousness
• The act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a swoon. [R.] See Fainting, n.
• To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
• To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
• a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
• temporary loss of consciousness
ADJECTIVE:
• lacking strength
• (of a sight, smell, or sound) barely perceptible
• (of a hope or chance) possible but unlikely; slight
• lacking conviction or enthusiasm; feeble
• feeling weak and dizzy and close to losing consciousness
• lacking clarity, brightness, or volume
• deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
• lacking clarity or distinctness
• weak and likely to lose consciousness
• indistinctly understood or felt or perceived
• lacking conviction or boldness or courage
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• lacking strength or vigor

Words related to FAINT

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Words that contain FAINT

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How to use FAINT in a sentence

• Within this gloom lay my Beltane, stirring not and speaking no word, being faint and sick with his hurts.
• I was sick at heart and literally faint with fear when this knowledge was forced in upon me, for I knew only too well how idle would be all the promises of St.
• They only broke in upon it, like faint gleams of sunshine, for a moment, and then were gone.
• When they entered together the room of the sick woman, the light had burned down and threw a faint light on the quiet, pale face.
• Is it your shoulder that is hurt, or your chest? Lean on me, if you feel faint or giddy.
• I do not know what supernatural power came to my aid that I did not faint and fall.
• Irvin could hear the faint crackling sound made by the burning charcoal in the brass vessel near her.
• He kept to his hands and knees, and made no sound as he advanced, but at intervals he dropped his ear to the ground, and heard the faint rustling that was drawing nearer.
• Up above me soft little gray clouds showed suddenly, all touched with pink on their eastern sides, while the sky behind them warmed with a faint dun glow.
• A single faint light gleamed out from the hallway of the house.
• She was faint and unnerved, and, as she seemed to feel her death was near, made her confession to her priest.
• The version used had, however, but a faint resemblance to the original.
• A faint wind rattled the palms on the street in front of the house.
• They may retain faint vestiges of their former beauty, but that is all.
• She answered with a faint voice, that as she had held a regal sceptre, she desired no other than a royal successor.
• When Jack came to himself again, he felt faint and sick, and his head ached dully.
• Early the next morning the admiral decided to leave the boats, for with his men so faint from hunger he thought it dangerous to tax them with a labour so severe as rowing.
• When the night was thickest, in the long, dark hour just before the dawn, Henry and Paul, who were again side by side, heard a faint, distant cry.
• Now a faint, almost inaudible hum began to make itself heard.
• Lady Bassett raised no further remonstrance beyond a faint, eloquent lift of the shoulders.
• I twisted the truth out of him, and then as I was about to faint like a school-girl, and as my information was precious, I flung him over a cliff.
• I think, too, that I have a little of the feeling of faint hope that inspired Balak when he showed Balaam the Israelites from a fresh point of view.
• It was an earnest gaze in which a faint hope shone.
• Prockter, after the song, had come to him and asked where he could lie down, as he was conscious of a tendency to faint.
• There was a faint movement in the leaves by the roadside, and a grey fox crossed, flattened on the ground, and disappeared.
• And then, as she looked out of the window, she gave a faint scream.
• A faint gleam was soon perceptible, like the first blush of morning, apparently on the opposite side of the chamber.
• The wash had nearly died away, and the quick panting of the launch sounded already faint and far off, when Gideon was startled by a cry from Julia.

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