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embrowned

Syllables: em·brownedUK/ɪmˈbɹaʊnd/US/əmˈbɹaʊnd/

embrowned adjective: made brown; browned. Also the simple past and past participle of embrown.

Adjective

embrowned (comparative more embrowned, superlative most embrowned)

  1. (literary, poetic) Made brown; browned.
    • The sun-flakes by multitudes lie, / Shed loose as the petals of roses discrowned / On the floors of the forest engilt and embrowned / And reddened afar and anigh.1893, The Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, page 502
  2. (literary, poetic) Made dark or dusky (“having a rather dark shade of colour”); darkened.
    • Day was departing, and the embrowned air / Released the animals that are on earth / From their fatigues; […]1867, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., The Divine Comedy, volume I (Inferno), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 7, lines 75–78

Also used as

embrowned is also the simple past and past participle of embrown.

Forms of embrowned

comparativemore embrowned
superlativemost embrowned

Origin of embrowned

From embrown + -ed.

Words that rhyme with embrowned

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Questions about embrowned

What does embrowned mean?
Embrowned means made brown; browned.
What part of speech is embrowned?
Embrowned is an adjective.
How do you pronounce embrowned?
Embrowned is pronounced /ɪmˈbɹaʊnd/ (UK).

Words near embrowned in the dictionary

  1. embronzes
  2. embronzing
  3. embrothel
  4. embrothels
  5. embrown
  6. embrowned
  7. embrownedst
  8. embrownest
  9. embrowneth
  10. embrowning
  11. embrowns

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