sinking spell

noun

a temporary decline, as in health or market values: Wall Street is over its sinking spell.

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He was gone again, leaving only a few pellets to check a possible sinking-spell.
The Biography of a Prairie Girl | Eleanor Gates
One day at four o'clock he had a sudden sinking spell, and at five he was dead.
Jennie Gerhardt | Theodore Dreiser
She had been trying to do a little work in the field in the afternoon, when a sinking spell had come on.
Elsket | Thomas Nelson Page
He had another sinking spell yesterday, and he--he mustn't have another!
The Heart of Rachael | Kathleen Norris
He closed his eyes as if he had been taken with a sudden sinking spell.
The Hill of Venus | Nathan Gallizier

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