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sinking spell

noun

  1. a temporary decline, as in health or market values:

    Wall Street is over its sinking spell.



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Example Sentences

He was gone again, leaving only a few pellets to check a possible sinking-spell.

One day at four o'clock he had a sudden sinking spell, and at five he was dead.

She had been trying to do a little work in the field in the afternoon, when a sinking spell had come on.

He had another sinking spell yesterday, and he--he mustn't have another!

He closed his eyes as if he had been taken with a sudden sinking spell.

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