fainten

verb

fainten

verb

Etymology From faint + -en (verbal suffix).

1

Ambitransitive To make or become faint.

Thou wilt not be, either so little absent as not to whet our appetites, nor so long as to fainten the heart.1808, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt, The Works of Joseph Hall:

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