browning
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Definitions ofbrowning
- To become brown.
Example: "Fry the onions until they brown."
- To cook something until it becomes brown.
Example: "Brown the onions in a large frying pan."
- To tan.
Example: "Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun."
- To make brown or dusky.
- To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
- (usually derogatory) To turn progressively more Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
Example: "the browning of America"
- To treat with deference, or respect.
- The act or operation of giving a brown colour, as to gun barrels, cooked food, etc.
- Any of various preparations used to impart a brown colour to gravy, leather, etc.
- A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.
- A brown-skinned person.
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