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brown up

brown up verb: to become or make (something) brown in color, such as by cooking.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, literally, transitive) To become or make (something) brown in color, such as by cooking.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To become browner from tanning.
  3. (intransitive, transitive) To put on or wear brownface makeup.

Forms of brown up

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

Questions about brown up

What does brown up mean?
Brown up means to become or make (something) brown in color, such as by cooking.
What part of speech is brown up?
Brown up is a verb.
What is the past tense of brown up?
The past tense of brown up is browned up.

Words near brown up in the dictionary

  1. brown tinamou
  2. brown tinamous
  3. brown towhee
  4. Brown Township
  5. brown trout
  6. brown up
  7. brown water
  8. brown Windsor soup
  9. brown woolly monkey
  10. brown woolly monkeys
  11. Brown's syndrome

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