Elle a simplement défailli.
She has merely fainted.
Je pense que j'ai défailli.
I think he just fainted.
Tous les saints ont subi beaucoup de tentations et de douleurs, et c'est parce qu'ils ont su les vaincre qu'ils se sont sanctifiés, alors que ceux qui ont défailli sur la route du salut se sont vus rejetés.
The saints all passed through many temptations and trials to profit by them, while those who could not resist became reprobate and fell away.
J'ai défailli et cogné ma joue contre la baignoire.
I fainted and hit my cheek on the bath.
Tous, en ce jour ont défailli devant le Verbe de leur Seigneur.
All have swooned away in this Day from the Word of thy Lord.
Mon coeur a défailli.
My heart sunk.
Il a juste défailli.
He just keeled over.
J'allais bien quand soudain, la Terre a bougé et mon cœur a défailli.
I was fine one moment and then the next thing I knew, the Earth moved and my heart skipped a beat.
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