sinking heart

noun

A feeling of intense sadness.

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Meanings

nounsinking heart (plural sinking hearts)

plural sinking hearts

  1. figurativelyA feeling of intense sadness.

    "Yes, that was the date set for the ceremony," Vane Cameron responded, with a sinking heart, as he bent a pitying look upon the young and terribly stricken husband.

    1898, Mrs. Georgie Sheldon, His Heart's Queen, G. W. Dillingham Company, page 127
    1 more example

    Louisa looked from Everett’s apologetic smile to her mother’s satisfied expression to Juliet’s smirk and realized with a sinking heart that things were, in fact, quite settled.

    2024, Natalie C. Parker, Three Sides of a Heart, HarperCollins, →ISBN
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