embrown

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embrown

/ɪmˈbɹaʊn/ UK
/ɛm-/ UK
/əmˈbɹaʊn/ US
/ɛm-/ US

Rhymes with -aʊn

Where it comes from

PIE word

*h₁én

From em- (variant of en- (prefix with the sense ‘to bring to a certain condition or state’)) + brown (“having a brown colour”, adjective).

Cognates

* French embrunir

* Italian imbrunire

verb embrowns · embrowning · embrowned · embrown

also, figuratively, literary, poetic, transitive To make (something) brown; to brown. For time ſhall with his ready pencil ſtand; / Retouch your figures with his ripening hand; / Mellow your colors, and imbrown the teint; / Add every grace, which time alone can grant; / To future ages ſhall your fame convey, / And give more beauties than he takes away.
Similar: brownify
also, figuratively, literary, poetic, transitive To make (something) dark or dusky (“having a rather dark shade of colour”); to brown, to darken. […] Nature boon / Powrd forth profuſe on Hill and Dale and Plaine, / Both where the morning Sun firſt warmly ſmote / The open field, and where the unpierc't ſhade / Imbround the noontide Bowrs: […]
also, figuratively, intransitive, literary, poetic To become or make brown; to brown. [O]n the board diſplay'd / The ready meal before Ulyſſes lay'd. / (VVith flour imbrovvn'd) next mingled vvine yet nevv, / And luſcious as the Bee's nectareous devv: […]
Similar: brownify
also, figuratively, intransitive, literary, poetic To become or make dark or dusky; to brown, to darken. Under theſe Auſpices, Jamblicus compoſed the Book juſt before mentioned, Of the Mytſeries; meaning the profound and recondite Doctrines of the Egyptian Philoſophy: VVhich, at Bottom, is nothing elſe but the genuine Greek Philoſophy, imbrovvned vvith the Fanaticiſm of Eatſern Cant.

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verb to make (something) brown — see also brown

Français	embrunir
Italiano	imbrunìre

verb to become or make brown — see also brown

Français	embrunir
Italiano	imbrunìre

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@misc{embrown_2026,
  title = {embrown},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/embrown},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}