sundown
/ˈsʌnˌdaʊn/ verb C2- To experience an episode or an onset of some detrimental mental condition like agitation, anxiety, hallucination or dementia, daily at the approach of nightfall.
He/she/it sundowns · Past sundowned · Past participle sundowned · -ing form sundowning
Verb forms
- Base form
- sundown
- He/she/it
- sundowns
- Past
- sundowned
- Past participle
- sundowned
- -ing form
- sundowning
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ROAMING BY the mountainside at sundown, a Wolf saw his own shadow become greatly extended and magnified, and he said to himself, “Why should I, being of such an immense size and extending nearly an acre in length, be afraid of the Lion?
There’s not a man would cross it after sundown if he was paid for it.
“Well, either that boot comes back before sundown or I’ll see the manager and tell him that I go right straight out of this hotel.”
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