embrown

[em-broun]

verb (used with or without object)

to make or become brown or dark.

Origin of embrown

First recorded in 1660–70; em-¹ + brown

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Historical Examples of embrown

The sun of Egypt had embrown'd his face, And time had ripen'd every youthful grace.
Elegies and Other Small Poems
Matilda Betham