embrown

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English

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Etymology

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PIE word
*h₁én
A person’s legs being embrowned (sense 1) by the sun.

From em- (variant of en- (prefix with the sense ‘to bring to a certain condition or state’)) +‎ brown (having a brown colour, adjective).[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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embrown (third-person singular simple present embrowns, present participle embrowning, simple past and past participle embrowned) (chiefly literary and poetic, also figuratively)

  1. (transitive)
    1. To make (something) brown; to brown.
      Synonym: brownify
    2. To make (something) dark or dusky (having a rather dark shade of colour); to brown, to darken.
  2. (intransitive)
    1. To become or make brown; to brown.
      Synonym: brownify
    2. To become or make dark or dusky; to brown, to darken.

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Derived terms

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Translations

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References

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  1. ^ embrown, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022.

Anagrams

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