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sundowned

sundowned is the simple past and past participle of sundown.

Meaning of sundown

Verb

sundown (third-person singular simple present sundowns, present participle sundowning, simple past and past participle sundowned)

  1. (intransitive) To experience an episode or an onset of some detrimental mental condition like agitation, anxiety, hallucination or dementia, daily at the approach of nightfall.
    • "She also “sundowned”, and someone had to keep an eye on her 24-7."2009, Kay Cameron, Tim Rhodus, Life With God 101

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Questions about sundowned

What is sundowned the simple past and past participle of?
Sundowned is the simple past and past participle of sundown.

Words near sundowned in the dictionary

  1. Sundon
  2. sundown
  3. sundown syndrome
  4. sundown town
  5. sundown towns
  6. sundowned
  7. sundowner
  8. sundowner syndrome
  9. sundowner town
  10. sundowner towns
  11. sundowner's syndrome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sundowned (page history and authors); sundown (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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