Definitions for syncope

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syncope syn·co·pe

Spelling: [sing-kuh-pee, sin-]

IPA: /ˈsɪŋ kəˌpi, ˈsɪn-/

Syncope is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in syncope (cenopsy).

Definitions for syncope

noun

1. Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
2. Pathology. brief loss of consciousness associated with transient cerebral anemia, as in heart block, sudden lowering of the blood pressure, etc.; fainting.

Origin of syncope

1350-1400; Middle English Late Latin syncopē Greek synkopḗ a cutting short, equivalent to syn- syn- + kop- (stem of kóptein to cut) + -ē feminine noun suffix

Examples for syncope

If the girl had fainted it was a pity, but what influence had he over her syncope?

Verbs which suffer a syncope in the Infinitive, suffer a like syncope in the Pret.

It is therefore not a Narcotic; but, like other Sedatives, it kills by syncope.

At last, however, the hæmorrhage stopped, under the state of syncope.

In swoons and syncope, the soul no longer performs her ordinary functions.

He died in a sort of syncope, seven hours after swallowing the tobacco.

His breath fails him, and he seems relapsing into the syncope from which he has been aroused.

And as he went out of the gate he told Dad it was a syncope—I think.

They were bled to syncope, which then meant usually to 32 ounces.

I must have lain several hours, partly in syncope, and partly asleep.