browned

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To become brown.
   • Fry the onions until they brown.

   Synonyms:

   embrown, brownify

2. (childish) Synonym of poop (“to defecate”).
   • I've just browned myself.

   Synonyms:

   poop

3. (transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
   • Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […]1887, Indian Cookery "Local" for Young Housekeepers: Second Edition, page 67
4. (intransitive, transitive) To tan.
   • Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
5. (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
   • A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad

   Synonyms:

   embrown

6. (transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
   • It is mixed uniformly with olive oil, and rubbed upon the iron slightly heated, which is afterwards exposed to the air, till the wished-for degree of browning is produced.1860, Andrew Ure, Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, page 463

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