brownify

verb brownifies · brownifying · brownified

1. To make or become more brown. do not forget his green and gold, and, I have to add, a cock and pinched hat equally rusty, with a break in the centre, from the polite bows he always made, and with a pair of brownified silk stockings – such was once poor A—— – now he has short hair, a plain coat, a gigured velvet waistcoat and wor
2. informal, in particular To cause to contain more racially 'brown' people, elements, or culture. We are all going to intermarry and brownify and hold hands and honor our essential human cousinhood—weren't we?
3. in particular, of a lake or stream To become brown due to increased levels of humic material.

Similar: embrown