"syncopes" in the noun sense
1. faint, swoon, syncope, deliquium
a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
2. syncope, syncopation
phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')
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