Fainten

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make or become faint. ambitransitive

    "Thou wilt not be, either so little absent as not to whet our appetites, nor so long as to fainten the heart."

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"Thou wilt not be, either so little absent as not to whet our appetites, nor so long as to fainten the heart."

Etymology

From faint + -en (verbal suffix).

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