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browning out

browning out is the present participle and gerund 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 browning out

What is browning out the present participle and gerund of?
Browning out is the present participle and gerund of brown out.

Words near browning out in the dictionary

  1. brownify
  2. brownifying
  3. browniine
  4. browniness
  5. browning
  6. browning out
  7. browning shot
  8. browning shots
  9. browning up
  10. Browningesque
  11. Browningian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: browning 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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