(n) :
a loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon; a missing sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't or Hawai'i from the root name Hawaiki
"1973: the rapidly-whitening face, the miserable fixed smile, meant a syncope within the next few bars. -- Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise"
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(n) :
a loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon; a missing sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't or Hawai'i from the root name Hawaiki
"1973: the rapidly-whitening face, the miserable fixed smile, meant a syncope within the next few bars. -- Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise"