sinking spell

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   a temporary decline in health or value

   Broaderdecline

Questions about sinking spell

What does sinking spell mean?

sinking spell means "a temporary decline in health or value".

Is sinking spell a common word?

sinking spell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.