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==English==
{{was wotd|2022|August|17}}

===Etymology===
{{PIE word|en|h₁én}}{{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰerH-|id=brown}}
[[File:020200828 160151 (2) Skarpa w Międzybrodziu.jpg|thumb|A person’s [[leg#Noun|legs]] being embrowned ''(sense 1)'' by the [[sun#Noun|sun]].]]

From {{prefix|en|em|pos1=variant of {{m|en|en-|pos={{glossary|prefix}} with the sense ‘to bring to a certain condition or state’}}|brown|t2=having a brown colour|pos2=adjective}}.<ref>{{R:OED Online|pos=adj|id=61050|date=March 2022}}</ref>

{{rel-top|cognates}}
* {{cog|fr|embrunir}}
* {{cog|it|imbrunire}}
{{rel-bottom}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ɪmˈbɹaʊn/|/ɛm-/|a=RP}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-embrown.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{IPA|en|/əmˈbɹaʊn/|/ɛm-/|a=GA}}
* {{rhymes|en|aʊn|s=2}}
* {{hyphenation|en|em|brown}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}} {{term-label|en|chiefly|literary|and|poetic|also|figuratively}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}}
## To [[make#Verb|make]] (something) [[brown#Adjective|brown]]; to [[brown#Adjective|brown]].
##: {{synonyms|en|brownify}}
##* {{RQ:Dryden Miscellaneous Works|volume=II|chapter=Kneller|page=201|passage=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.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=w:George Davies Harley|chapter=The Reproof|title=Ballad Stories, Sonnets, &c|location=Bath, Somerset|publisher={{...|Printed by}} R. Cruttwell; and sold by [[w:Charles Dilly|C[harles] Dilly]],{{nb...|Poultry}}, and [[w:William Miller (British publisher)|W[illiam] Miller]],{{nb...|Bond-Street, London; Pearson, Birmingham; and Bulgin and Sheppard, Bristol.}}|year=1799|volume=I|section=stanza 2|page=22|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=rpdPGtRJuQQC&pg=PA22|oclc=1230936971|passage=For blight of the season '''embrowneth''' the bloom, / And time winnows falshood, like chaff, as it flies: {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Byron Childe Harold|canto=I|stanza=XIX|page=17|passage=The mountain-moss by scorching skies '''imbrown'd''', {{...}}}}
##* {{quote-book|en|chapter=Chapter XXXIX. Intitled, The Troops; Revealed at Mecca.|translator=w:George Sale|title=[[w:Quran|The Koran, Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed, Translated into English Immediately from the Original Arabic;{{nb...|with Explanatory Notes, Taken from the Most Approved Commentators. To which is Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse. [...] A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Translator, and with Various Readings and Illustrative Notes from Savary’s Version of the Koran. In Two Volumes.}}]]|edition=new|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed [by]}} &#91;{{w|Thomas Davison}}&#93; for {{w|Thomas Tegg}},{{nb...|73, Cheapside; R. Milliken, Dublin; Griffin and Co. Glasgow; and M. Baudry, Paris.}}|year=1825|volume=II|section=footnote ‡|page=327|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5nW1Uz3EQfcC&pg=PA327|oclc=|passage=The heat '''embrowneth''' the harvests. They fall under the edge of the sickle.|footer={{small|An English translation of a passage from {{w|Claude-Étienne Savary}}’s French translation of the Quran (1782–1783).}}}}
##* {{RQ:Scott Talisman|volume=III|chapter=II|page=31|passage=His features were small, well formed, and delicate, though deeply '''embrowned''' by the eastern sun, and terminated by a flowing and curled black beard, which seemed trimmed with peculiar care.}}
##* {{RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi|volume=I|chapter=The Knight of Provençe, and His Proposal|page=184|passage=His fair hair waved long and freely over a white and unwrinkled forehead: the life of a camp and the suns of Italy had but little '''embrowned''' his clear and healthful complexion, which retained much of the bloom of youth.}}
##* {{RQ:Gaskell Cousin Phillis|part=II|page=66|passage=He was looking quite a different man to what I had left him; '''embrowned''', sparkles in his eyes, so languid before.}}
## To make (something) [[dark#Adjective|dark]] or {{l|en|dusky|t=having a rather dark [[shade#Noun|shade]] of [[colour#Noun|colour]]}}; to brown, to [[darken]].
##* {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|book=IV|lines=242–246|page=101|passage={{...}} 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: {{...}}|year=1873}}
##* {{RQ:Young Night-Thoughts|night=5|page=11|passage=And thy dark Pencil, ''Midnight!'' darker ſtill / In Melancholy dipt, '''embrovvns''' the vvhole.}}
##* {{RQ:Scott Rokeby|stanza=IX|page=115|passage=No deeper clouds the grove '''embrowned''', / No nether thunders shook the ground; {{...}}}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}}
## To [[become]] or make brown; to brown.
##: {{synonyms|en|brownify}}
##* {{RQ:Homer Pope et al Odyssey|book=XIV|page=238|lines=91–94|passage=[O]n the board diſplay'd / The ready meal before ''[[w:Odysseus|Ulyſſes]]'' lay'd. / (VVith flour '''imbrovvn'd''') next mingled vvine yet nevv, / And luſcious as the Bee's nectareous devv: {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Dante Longfellow Divine Comedy|volume=II|canto=IV|lines=19–21|page=21|passage=A greater opening ofttimes hedges up / With but a little forkful of his thorns / The villager, what time the grape '''imbrowns''', {{...}}}}
## To become or make dark or dusky; to brown, to darken.
##* {{RQ:Warburton Divine Legation|volume=I|section=IV|page=405|passage=Under theſe Auſpices, ''[[w:Iamblichus|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.}}
##* {{RQ:Dante Cary Vision|volume=I|canto=II|page=5|lines=1–3|passage=Now was the day departing, and the air, / '''Imbrown'd''' with shadows, from their toils releas'd / All animals on earth; {{...}}}}

====Conjugation====
{{en-conj|old=1}}

====Alternative forms====
* {{l|en|imbrown}} {{qualifier|archaic}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|en|embrowned|pos=adjective}}
* {{l|en|embrowning|pos=adjective, noun}}
* {{l|en|embrownment}} {{qualifier|rare}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|en|brown}}
* {{l|en|brownify}}
* {{l|en|browning|pos=noun}}
* {{l|en|brownish}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top-also|to make (something) brown|brown}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|pruunistama}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|ruskistaa}}
* French: {{t+|fr|embrunir}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|imbrunire|alt=imbrunìre}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|pociemniać}}
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{{trans-top-also|to become or make brown|brown}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|ruskistua}}
* French: {{t+|fr|embrunir}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|imbrunire|alt=imbrunìre}}
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{{trans-see|to make (something) dark or dusky; to become or make dark or dusky|darken}}

===References===
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===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=bemnorw|Mewborn|browmen}}

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