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brownified

brownified is the simple past and past participle of brownify.

Meaning of brownify

Verb

brownify (third-person singular simple present brownifies, present participle brownifying, simple past and past participle brownified)

  1. To make or become more brown.
    • do not forget his green and gold, and, I have to add, a cock and pinched hat equally rusty, with a break in the centre, from the polite bows he always made, and with a pair of brownified silk stockings – such was once poor A—— – now he has short hair, a plain coat, a gigured velvet waistcoat and...1792, Joseph Palmer, A Fortnight's Ramble to the Lakes in Westmoreland
    1. (informal) To cause to contain more racially 'brown' people, elements, or culture.
      • We are all going to intermarry and brownify and hold hands and honor our essential human cousinhood—weren't we?2012, Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc., page 232
    2. To become brown due to increased levels of humic material.

Questions about brownified

What is brownified the simple past and past participle of?
Brownified is the simple past and past participle of brownify.

Words near brownified in the dictionary

  1. brownie points
  2. brownier
  3. brownies
  4. browniest
  5. brownification
  6. brownified
  7. brownifies
  8. brownify
  9. brownifying
  10. browniine
  11. browniness

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