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to embrown

to embrown

9.9
To give something a brown color or to become brown
  • verb
  • /ɛmˈbraʊn/
  • Archaic
: marronear
  • The late afternoon sun began to embrown the fields with a golden hue.

Examples

  • Years of smoke from the hearth would embrown the walls of the old cottage.

  • Autumn winds embrown the leaves before they fall to the ground.

  • The leaves embrown in autumn.

  • The sun embrowns the landscape beautifully.

  • The autumn air will embrown the leaves, creating a beautiful landscape.

  • The unpaved road began to embrown as the mud dried under the warm sun.

  • As summer ends, the sun will embrown the grass, changing its vibrant green shade.

Synonyms

to brown
vsto embrown
38 2.0

To make something a darker color by heat, for example when cooking or in the sun

refers to causing a darker warm color without specifying methods

Antonyms

to bleach
30 3.2

To make something lighter in color, often using chemicals or sunlight

to whiten
10 2.8

Make or become more white in color

How Brown

to char
59 4.6
to sear
32 6.1
to embrown
  • Archaic
9.9
to stain
46 3.2
to tint
6 3.6

Surface Forms

embrown infinitive
embrowned past
embrowned past participle
embrowning present participle
embrowns third person singular

Morphology

embrown = brown (transparent) = em + brown

The verb is formed by the causative/adjectivizing prefix 'em-' added to 'brown', so its meaning 'to make brown' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Embrown is built from the prefix em- meaning 'make' and the colour brown, so it literally means 'make brown'. Think of familiar words like embrace or emboss, where em- means 'to cause', so to embrown is to cause something to become brown.