sinking feeling

A feeling of dread indicating that something bad has happened or is about to happen. As soon as I met him, I got a sinking feeling that he had bad intentions. When I heard about the plane crash, I had a sinking feeling that my friends were on that flight.

*sinking feeling

the feeling that everything is going wrong; a bad feeling in the base of one's stomach. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) I get a sinking feeling whenever I think of the night of the accident.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Miodrag	MEE-o-drahg	Serbian, Croatian
Aleksanteri	AH-lek-sahn-te-ree	Finnish
Athina	-	Greek
Abbe	-	Frisian
Love (1)	LOO-ve	Swedish
Ackerly	['ækəli]