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brown off

brown off verb: to annoy.

Verb

brown off (third-person singular simple present browns off, present participle browning off, simple past and past participle browned off)

  1. (transitive) To annoy.
  2. (transitive) To brown (something) to completion.
    • Brown off those onions before starting on the rest of the ingredients.

Forms of brown off

third-person singular presentbrowns off
present participlebrowning off
past participlebrowned off
pastbrowned off

Questions about brown off

What does brown off mean?
Brown off means to annoy.
What part of speech is brown off?
Brown off is a verb.
What is the past tense of brown off?
The past tense of brown off is browned off.

Words near brown off in the dictionary

  1. brown note
  2. brown notes
  3. brown ocean effect
  4. brown ochre
  5. brown ochres
  6. brown off
  7. brown onion
  8. brown onions
  9. brown oriole
  10. brown orioles
  11. brown out

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