brown
/bɹaʊ̯n/ verb C2- To become brown. · Fry the onions until they brown.
- Synonym of poop (“to defecate”). · I've just browned myself.
- To cook something until it becomes brown.
- To tan. · Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
- To make brown or dusky.
- To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
- To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region. · the browning of America
He/she/it browns · Past browned · Past participle browned · -ing form browning
Verb forms
- Base form
- brown
- He/she/it
- browns
- Past
- browned
- Past participle
- browned
- -ing form
- browning
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Down on the roof so brown--
The man whom we had known as Douglas turned up his own coat and cuff to show a brown triangle within a circle exactly like that which we had seen upon the dead man.
With these words the Witch fell down in a brown, melted, shapeless mass and began to spread over the clean boards of the kitchen floor.
DARK brown is the river,
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