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browns out

browns out is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 browns out

What is browns out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Browns out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of brown out.

Words near browns out in the dictionary

  1. Brownrigg
  2. Brownriggs
  3. browns
  4. Browns Creek
  5. Browns Mills
  6. browns out
  7. Browns Plains
  8. browns up
  9. Brownsboro
  10. Brownscombe
  11. Brownsea

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Adapted from Wiktionary: browns 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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