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about 1 year ago chained_bear said:

In a swoon or faint. to fall aswoon: to faint away.

Usages:
c1400 Rom. Rose 1804 A-swoone I felle, bothe deed & pale.

1865 CARLYLE Fredk. Gt. III. VIII. iii. 15 Wilhelmina, faint, fasting, sleepless all night, fairly falls aswoon.
(from OED online)

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