"sinking feeling" meaning in English

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          "text": "I have a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach.",
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          "text": "The danger was over, and Annabel, though dreadfully weak and reduced, was pronounced out of danger, and in a fair way of recovery, though her sinking feelings and wretched mind led her to suppose she should soon be no more—nor did the assurances of those who attended her serve, in any measure, to convince her she was safe.",
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          "text": "I cannot tell them what a sickening, sinking feeling came over me when I saw men, my fellow-men bought and sold like horses: […]",
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          "text": "She had dragging pains in the loins; general weakness, especially in the back; sinking feelings in the stomach, and a craving for food, without appetite; her bowels are sluggish; tongue pale and flabby.\nFrom the Dublin Journal of Medical Science, May 1840, pages 234–243.",
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          "text": "Both were silent, for their hearts were full, and overcome with the sinking feeling of depression accompanying all associations with that melancholy word farewell!",
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          "text": "A person, in an attack of this fever [i.e., “slow fever”], commonly feels a loss of strength, a loss of appetite, and a loss of mental activity. He realizes a heavy, indescribable, sinking feeling at the pit of the stomach.]",
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          "ref": "[1938], Rajput [pseudonym; Arthur John Eardley Dawson], chapter 8, in Khyber Calling!, London: Hurst & Blackett, →OCLC, section 6, page 129",
          "text": "With a sinking feeling I realized it would be past midnight before we saw our bedding.",
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          "text": "Dr. Weiss's voice was understanding and kind, but that didn't stop the sinking feeling in Megan's stomach. \"I think you should take some time off until it does [i.e., an incident blows over].\" The sinking feeling became a twenty-story drop. \"What?\"",
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          "word": "mahanpohjasta ottaminen"
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          "word": "sensation mauvaise"
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