fainten
English edit
Etymology edit
From faint + -en (verbal suffix).
Verb edit
fainten (third-person singular simple present faintens, present participle faintening, simple past and past participle faintened)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become faint.
- 1808, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt, The Works of Joseph Hall:
- Thou wilt not be, either so little absent as not to whet our appetites, nor so long as to fainten the heart.