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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

s'évanouir

Pronunciation / Transliteration: seh-vah-nwi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Pass-out/ˈpɑːs.aʊt/
verbnounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Il a failli s'évanouir à cause de la chaleur."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To lose consciousness temporarily; to faint.

    "The heat was so intense that several runners started to pass out."
As noun
  1. 1

    A ticket or document given to a person allowing them to leave a place temporarily and return.

    "Keep your pass-out handy if you want to re-enter the festival grounds later."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the verb 'pass' (Middle English, from Old French) combined with the adverb 'out'. Originally used in military and institutional contexts to denote leaving a place with permission, the physiological meaning of fainting developed in the late 19th century.

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