tailspin

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tailspin englanniksi

1. The rapid, uncontrollable descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral.

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2. A severe mental or emotional collapse; emotional breakdown.

3. Any sharp, sustained, often uncontrollable descent or decline.

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5. 2010 September, Chris Sommers, "Merge", St. Louis Magazine|''St. Louis'' magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 77:

St. Louis, the fourth-largest U.S. city in 1900, is fading fast(..). Jobs, and airline, an educated population—all gone or in a tailspin.

6. Of an aircraft: to go into a rapid, uncontrollable descent in a steep spiral.

7. To go into a sharp, sustained, often uncontrollable descent or decline.