brown
verb/braʊn/
/braʊn/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they brown | /braʊn/ /braʊn/ |
| he / she / it browns | /braʊnz/ /braʊnz/ |
| past simple browned | /braʊnd/ /braʊnd/ |
| past participle browned | /braʊnd/ /braʊnd/ |
| -ing form browning | /ˈbraʊnɪŋ/ /ˈbraʊnɪŋ/ |
- to become brown; to make something brown
- Heat the butter until it browns.
- The grass was browning in patches.
- brown something Brown the onions before adding the meat.
Word OriginOld English brūn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bruin and German braun.
Idioms
See brown in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybrowned off (with somebody/something)
- (British English, old-fashioned, informal) bored, unhappy and/or annoyed synonym fed up
- By now the passengers were getting browned off with the delay.
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