The word 'fainting' is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
It refers to a temporary loss of consciousness often caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain. Example: Sally felt lightheaded and suddenly collapsed, fainting in the middle of the crowded train station.
Though all of us are all sensitive to heat, and quick to react when it climbs above our comfort levels, our knowledge of how it might affect our health doesn't really go beyond sunstrokes and fainting spells.
First-aid teams attended people fainting, while even Obama appeared too hot in his shirt sleeves.
Audience members fainting at scenes of rape, mutilation and murder at Shakespeare's Globe during its current production of Titus Andronicus offer a reassuring reminder of the power of physical aggression in the theatre.
And she was writing when girls were mostly fainting or covered in net.
Government health experts are backing an experimental drug intended to boost the female sex drive, but stress that it must carry safety restrictions to manage side effects including fatigue, low blood pressure and fainting.
In 2010, Flibanserin was rejected unanimously by an FDA panel, which said its benefits did not outweigh its risks, which can include low blood pressure and fainting spells.
Peter O'Toole was generally derided for trying to restore Jacobean blood and thunder to his 1980 performance of Macbeth, which had people fainting with laughter rather than horror and revulsion.
The elusive figures turned out to be Murle boys protecting the convoy.Beside another disabled lorry deeper in the bush, a Murle mother and her two children were fainting from thirst.
Already, the children of Binga are fainting from hunger in class, and 27 people have died of hunger-related causes in the local hospital.In other Zimbabwean areas, peasants suspected of dissent are barred from buying maize from the state marketing board.
Only moments after your correspondent enters the labyrinth of passages a young woman falls silently to the dusty cement ground, fainting from a combination of heat and over ten hours of Ramadan fasting.
Compared with the reactions which a holy object can generate in the eastern half of the Christian world, the mood was low-key; there was no sign of people weeping, fainting, or falling to their knees.
