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昏倒こん倒 [sK]
こんとう
1. [n,vs,vi]
▶ falling (down) unconscious
▶ fainting (and collapsing)

Conjugations


History:
7. A 2024-01-24 23:33:54  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
gg5, prog, daij
  Diff:
@@ -18,2 +18,2 @@
-<gloss>falling unconscious</gloss>
-<gloss>fainting</gloss>
+<gloss>falling (down) unconscious</gloss>
+<gloss>fainting (and collapsing)</gloss>
6. A* 2024-01-24 18:36:07  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
昏倒	23283	  ~75% suru
昏倒し	10377	  
昏倒する	3544	  
昏倒さ	3414	
昏倒状態	157	  

Pulled "fell unconscious" from here.  Most commonly glossed with some form of "unconscious". No swooning...
https://context.reverso.net/translation/japanese-english/昏倒
"slipped into a coma"

Another FinalFantasy "swooning" commentary
Swooning...
https://legendsoflocalization.com/final-fantasy-iv/mysidia/
When an enemy is insta-killed using this sword, it says, “Swoon!” in English. This always struck me as odd until I got older and my vocabulary expanded.

https://kwhazit.ucoz.net/trans/ff4/status.html
I think the awkward "swoon" naming may have less to do with NoA's infamous content policies and more to do with struggling to find something in English that's both brief and reasonably true to せんとうふのう, which quite literally translates to "incapable of combat".
  Comments:
Maybe "passing out". 

Usually a verb.  Surely "swoon" is dated in this sense.  Not sure if keeping "swooning" is helpful to anyone.

Context I saw this: 昏倒させる = poisoned arrows knocking someone out/unconscious

In the late 80s/early 90s, Final Fantasy had a comical translation of "swooning" which they wisely dropped in future games.  I'm apparently not the only one with this memory  (refs).
  Diff:
@@ -18,2 +18,2 @@
-<gloss>swoon</gloss>
-<gloss>faint</gloss>
+<gloss>falling unconscious</gloss>
+<gloss>fainting</gloss>
5. A 2022-09-01 05:49:13  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
4. A* 2022-09-01 04:40:45  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 昏倒   │ 23,283 │ 95.1% │
│ こん倒  │    205 │  0.8% │ 🡠 sK (昏 is jinmeiyō)
│ コン倒  │      0 │  0.0% │
│ こんとう │    982 │  4.0% │
╰─ーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -8,0 +9 @@
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
3. A 2021-11-18 00:50:20  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Meikyo vt and vi additions to n,vs entries
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
  Diff:
@@ -15,0 +16 @@
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
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