bronze
/bɹɑnz/ verb C2- To plate with bronze. · My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
- To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
- To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
- To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
- To finish in third place; to win a bronze medal.
He/she/it bronzes · Past bronzed · Past participle bronzed · -ing form bronzing
Verb forms
- Base form
- bronze
- He/she/it
- bronzes
- Past
- bronzed
- Past participle
- bronzed
- -ing form
- bronzing
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The bronze medal for mathematics was considered as good as won by a fat, funny little up-country boy with a bumpy forehead and a patched coat.
An old seaman, bronzed by the tropical sun, advanced, twirling the remains of a hat between his hands.
Bronzing bracken and mottled bramble gleamed in the light of the sinking sun.
The dark panelling glowed like bronze in the golden rays, and it was hard to realise that this was indeed the chamber which had struck such a gloom into our souls upon the evening before.
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