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Bronzed vs Browzed - What's the difference?

bronzed | browzed |

As verbs the difference between bronzed and browzed

is that bronzed is past tense of bronze while browzed is past tense of browze.

bronzed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bronze)

    • bronze

    English

    (wikipedia bronze)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A natural or man-made alloy of copper, usually of tin, but also with one or more other metals.
  • (countable, and, uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
  • (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
  • A bronze medal.
  • Boldness; impudence; brass.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Embrown'd with native bronze , lo! Henley stands.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made of bronze metal.
  • *
  • *:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
  • Having a reddish-brown colour.
  • (lb) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.

    • Derived terms

    (terms derived from bronze) * arsenical bronze * bell bronze * Bronze Age * bronze medal * Bronze Star * bronzite * phosphor bronze

    Verb

    (bronz)
  • To plate with bronze.
    • My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
  • To color bronze.
  • (of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
  • * 2006 , Melissa Lassor, "Out of Darkness", page 124 in Watching Time
    • His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.
  • To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead

    See also

    * Brindisi * Cycladic * Hallstatt * Helladic * Minoan * penny *

    Anagrams

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    browzed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (browze)

    • browze

    English

    Verb

    (browz)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, title=The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=How much more great and solemn on this Occasion is that which follows in our English Poet, --And in their Palaces Where Luxury late reign'd, Sea-Monsters whelp'd And stabled-- than that in Ovid, where we are told that the Sea-Calfs lay in those Places where the Goats were used to browze ? }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Anna Green Winslow, title=Diary of Anna Green Winslow, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=A drol gentleman passing by with a bit of chalk in his hand underwrote thus-- O cruel death! more subtle than a Fox That would not let this Calf become an Ox, That he might browze among the briers & thorns And with his brethren wear, Horns. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Max Brand, title=Alcatraz, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=More than that, he saw a group of fat cattle browzing , and just beyond were horses in a pasture. }}