sundown
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sundown (countable and uncountable, plural sundowns)
- (now chiefly US) Sunset.
- We’ll meet by the pier at sundown.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XL, page 63:
- Yet oft when sundown skirts the moor
An inner trouble I behold,
A spectral doubt which makes me cold,
That I shall be thy mate no more, […]
- (countable) A hat with a wide brim to shade the eyes from sunlight.
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- dusk, mirkning, nightfall; see also Thesaurus:dusk
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sunset — see sunset
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sundown (third-person singular simple present sundowns, present participle sundowning, simple past and past participle sundowned)
- (intransitive) to experience an episode or an onset of some detrimental mental condition like agitation, anxiety, hallucination or dementia, daily at nightfall.
- 2009, Kay Cameron, Tim Rhodus, Life With God 101[1]:
- "She also “sundowned”, and someone had to keep an eye on her 24-7."