bronzing

Verb

bronze (third-person singular simple present bronzes, present participle bronzing, simple past and past participle bronzed)

1. (transitive) To plate with bronze.
   • My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
2. (transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
   • The sun was so low that its level rays shot through the tunnels of the forest and bronzed its ceiling of woven leaves when Bess returned to the clearing.1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy, London: Jonathan Cape, Part IV, p. 137
3. (intransitive) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
   • His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.2006, Melissa Lassor, “Out of Darkness”, in Watching Time, page 124
4. (transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
   • the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown...
5. (intransitive) To finish in third place; to win a bronze medal.
   • Louganis' runner-up count was 822.09, and Boggs bronzed at 783.78.1979, Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, AAU News

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