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Definitions:
Noun
faint
swoon
syncope
deliquium
Definition: a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
syncope
syncopation
Definition: (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')
Definition: The loss or elision of a sound, from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable. For example, the change of cannot to can't, never to ne'er, Latin calidus to caldus, or the pronunciation of the -cester ending in placenames as -ster (for example, Leicester pronounced Leister or Lester, and Worcester pronounced Wooster).