sundown
To experience an episode or an onset of some detrimental mental condition like…To experience an episode or an onset of some detrimental mental condition like agitation, anxiety, hallucination or dementia, daily at the approach of nightfall.
» The sheriff told Tom to be out of town by sundown.
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1 sensesTo experience an episode or an onset of some detrimental mental condition like agitation, anxiety, hallucination or dementia, daily at the approach of nightfall.
Examples
12 sentencesThe sheriff told Tom to be out of town by sundown.
Tom worked from sunup to sundown.
Tom arrived home at sundown.
Leonid didn't leave the campsite after sundown.
We need to repair the fence before sundown.
Origin
From sun + down.From sun + down.
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Forms
sundowns, sundowning, sundowned, sundownedWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.