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  • verb intransitive, Northern England To swoon; faint.
  • noun Northern England A swoon.

Etymologies

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From Middle English swebben ("to sleep, swoon"), from Old English swebban ("to put to sleep, lull, kill"), from Proto-Germanic *swabjanan, *swēbijanan (“to lull, put to sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep-, *sup- (“to sleep”). Cognate with Icelandic svefja ("to sleep"), Latin sōpiō ("put to sleep, lull", v). Related to sweven.

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  • Now the transition to CMS from blog software would not be easy but it would provide many worthwhile benefits to thi sweb site e.g. fully indexed comments, indexed searchable document/links module (with user added summaries and commentries), private (only viewable after login to registered users) content etc.

    The Georgia Tech Report Card « Climate Audit 2006

  • Another hub is the Piano Bar (Milesovska 10; 420-222-727-496; pianobar. sweb.cz), which looks like a traditional Czech pub but serves an older, mostly gay clientele.

    NYT > Travel By CHARLY WILDER 2010

  • I right clicked the html document to open it as normal and accidently clicked open with sweb. exe which is a open office program and found out that the html document open and i cant edit it without going through html i was like omg basically im asking what uses can sweb. exe be used for in html editing

    Discussion Forum - Geeks! 2009

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  • oroboros commented on the word sweb

    To swoon and faint.

    July 26, 2009