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▸ noun: (figuratively) A severe mental or emotional collapse; emotional breakdown.
▸ noun: (figuratively) Any sharp, sustained, often uncontrollable descent or decline.
▸ verb: Of an aircraft: to go into a rapid, uncontrollable descent in a steep spiral.
▸ verb: (figurative) To go into a sharp, sustained, often uncontrollable descent or decline.
Similar:
spin,
spinout,
skid,
sideslip,
nosedive,
tailslide,
whipstall,
tail slide,
switchback,
chute,
more...
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emotional,
economic,
financial,
complete,
mental,
real,
psychological,
downward,
serious,
long,
fatal
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