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syncope Tweet Definition of syncope Like Definition of syncope on Facebook
noun 
  1. A loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon.
  • 1973: the rapidly-whitening face, the miserable fixed smile, meant a within the next few bars. " Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise
    1. A way of making a word shorter by leaving out sounds or letters in the middle of it, for example by changing cannot to can't.
Etymology: , from , from â + "strike, cut off".

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