- faint, swoon, syncope, deliquium - a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
 --1 is a kind of loss of consciousness
 
- syncope, syncopation - (phonology) the loss of sounds in the interior of a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')
 --2 is a kind of articulation
 Derived form: verb syncopate1