browned

/bษนaสŠnd/

IPA: /B R AW1 N D/

verb
  1. 1

    To become brown.

    โ€œFry the onions until they brown.โ€

  2. 2

    To cook something until it becomes brown.

    โ€œBrown the onions in a large frying pan.โ€

  3. 3

    To tan.

    โ€œLight-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.โ€

  4. 4

    To make brown or dusky.

  5. 5

    To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.

  6. 6

    (usually derogatory) To turn progressively more Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.

    โ€œthe browning of Americaโ€

  7. 7

    To treat with deference, or respect.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brown, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/browned