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Definition of Sinking feeling
1. Noun. A feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension. "A sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach"
Definition of Sinking feeling
1. Noun. A feeling of uneasiness or apprehension ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sinking Feeling
Literary usage of Sinking feeling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homœopathic Therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1890)
"Flushes of heat, especially during convalescence, with heat on top of head, cold
feet and sinking feeling in epigastrium. FONTANELLES OF INFANTS, RETARDED ..."
2. Text-book of Homeopathic Materia Medica by George Royal (1920)
"I can testify to all the symptoms given by Allen, viz., " discharges like meat
washings, burning pain in rectum, severe tenesmus, sinking feeling in abdomen ..."
3. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1878)
"sinking feeling in. stomach (fifty-third day),1. ... Pains in the stomach, as if
diarrhoea would come onr with sick and sinking feeling (eighteenth day),1. ..."