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
Paulus	-	Ancient Roman, Biblical Latin
Sansone	sahn-SO-ne	Italian
Ayokunle	-	Western African, Yoruba
Roland	['rəulənd]
Carolus	-	Ancient Germanic (Latinized)
Gabr	-	Arabic