Word.ws English Dictionary

browns up

browns up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of brown up.

Meaning of brown up

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, literally, transitive) To become or make (something) brown in color, such as by cooking.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To become browner from tanning.
  3. (intransitive, transitive) To put on or wear brownface makeup.

Questions about browns up

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

Words near browns up in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: browns up (page history and authors); brown up (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “browns up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/browns_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.