embrown

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to make brown, dark, or dusky in colour

   The low autumn sun began to embrown the distant fields.

2. 2
   verb

   to become brown or dark with age, weather, or exposure

   The paper will embrown slowly when exposed to smoke and sunlight.

Formed from em-, a variant of en- meaning 'to bring into a state,' + brown. The verb has been used since the seventeenth century for making something brown or dusky.

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