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to embrown

to embrown

9.9
To give something a brown color or to become brown
  • verb
  • /ɛmˈbraʊn/
  • Archaic
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  • 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
50 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
50 3.2

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

to whiten
8 2.8

Make or become more white in color

How Brown

to char
53 4.6
to sear
76 6.1
to embrown
  • Archaic
9.9
to stain
113 3.2
to tint
24 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.