embrown

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɪmˈbɹaʊn/|/ɛm-/    美 /əmˈbɹaʊn/|/ɛm-/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make (something) brown; to brown. also,figuratively,literary,poetic,transitive
    — 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.
  2. To make (something) dark or dusky (“having a rather dark shade of colour”); to brown, to darken. also,figuratively,literary,poetic,transitive
    — […] 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: […]
  3. To become or make brown; to brown. also,figuratively,intransitive,literary,poetic
    — [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: […]
  4. To become or make dark or dusky; to brown, to darken. also,figuratively,intransitive,literary,poetic
    — 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.

词形变化

embrowns present,singular,third-person embrowning participle,present embrowned participle,past embrowned past no-table-tags table-tags glossary inflection-template embrown infinitive embrown first-person,present,singular embrowned first-person,past,singular embrown present,second-person,singular embrownest archaic,present,second-person,singular embrowned past,second-person,singular embrownedst archaic,past,second-person,singular embrowns present,singular,third-person embrowneth archaic,present,singular,third-person embrowned past,singular,third-person embrown plural,present embrowned past,plural embrown present,subjunctive embrowned past,subjunctive embrown imperative,present - imperative,past embrowning participle,present embrowned participle,past imbrown alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
embrowned embrowning embrownment
相关词
brown brownify browning brownish

词源

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
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