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brown outs

brown outs is the plural of brown out.

Meaning of brown out

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To experience a partial loss of vision having the characteristics of a brownout, to suffer a brownout.
    • The pilot pulled up hard into a tight loop and browned out, losing sight of the target.
    Synonyms:
    greyout

Questions about brown outs

What is brown outs the plural of?
Brown outs is the plural of brown out.

Words near brown outs in the dictionary

  1. brown onion
  2. brown onions
  3. brown oriole
  4. brown orioles
  5. brown out
  6. brown outs
  7. brown owl
  8. brown owls
  9. brown palm civet
  10. brown palm civets
  11. brown paper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brown outs (page history and authors); brown out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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