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browned out

browned out is the simple past and past participle 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 browned out

What is browned out the simple past and past participle of?
Browned out is the simple past and past participle of brown out.

Words near browned out in the dictionary

  1. brownea
  2. Brownean
  3. browneas
  4. browned
  5. browned off
  6. browned out
  7. browned up
  8. browned-off
  9. Brownell
  10. Brownells
  11. browner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: browned out (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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