browned
SayBROWND/bɹaʊnd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of brown.
The cook browned the beef cubes before adding them to the stew.
Once the pastry had browned, they pulled it out to cool on the rack.
Note
One regular form does double duty, as past tense and as past participle. Its grammar depends on whether there is an object. Pastry that has browned did so on its own, while beef is browned by a cook, and only that transitive use can be passive. Gunsmiths also speak of browned barrels, finished with a thin oxide coat. Avoid saying a region has browned, since that use is an offensive ethnic slur.
browned is a form of brown
brown, verb: To cook food until its surface develops a brown color. Full entry
- Spelling
- brown → browned: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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