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sundown

[ suhn-doun ]

noun

  1. sunset, especially the time of sunset.


verb (used without object)

  1. Psychiatry. (especially of dementia patients) to experience confusion or hallucinations late in the day or at night, likely as a result of strange surroundings, drug effects, decreased sensory input, or reduction of oxygen supply to the brain.

sundown

/ ˈsʌnˌdaʊn /

noun

  1. See sunset
    another name for sunset


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sundown1

First recorded in 1610–20; sun + down 1

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Example Sentences

The 100th anniversary celebration of the dedication of the iconic Dupont Circle fountain is to be held from noon until sundown today.

Maybe you’re bringing little kids and hiking one or two miles a day, or maybe you’re going fast and light and logging dozens of miles before sundown.

From sunrise through sundown, rows of lettuce, broccoli, and cauliflower are planted, tended to and harvested on the thousand-acre ranch — partially by humans, increasingly by machines.

It all tends to wind down with sundown, but a few showers could roam a bit longer.

When the liberated Jewish prisoners recited the Hear O Israel, the Lord Our God, the Lord is One, I felt myself carried back to the Friday evenings at home, when with the Sabbath at sundown a healing quietness would come over Brownsville.

Thunderous sounds announce its arrival, piercing the silence that accompanies sundown in the swampland near Boystown, Liberia.

But after sundown, she would enjoy what felt like a greater luxury.

This year, Jews around the world will revisit those traditions on the evening after Good Friday, when Passover begins at sundown.

Torture, some people might call it, from sundown Sunday to sundown Friday.

The tour ended without event and Conor returned to the stationhouse after sundown.

If Mac had been alone he would have made the post by sundown, for the Mounted Police rode picked horses, the best money could buy.

It was past sundown when they left San Bernardino, but a full moon made the night as good as day for their journey.

Just afore sundown, she showed up, and passed me with her eyes fixed on a spot about two miles further on.

Courage, my child,” he says; “see, we have gone a great distance; to-morrow before sundown we shall descend in Belgium.

Just about sundown the stately herdsman again appeared with his motley following.

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