Brassen
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To make like or become like brass, particularly in fortitude or colour ambitransitive
"He could possibly understand a man wishing to blacken the gray as he aged, it was only natural—to a point, and then it was not. But to brassen one's hair like a homosexual?"
Example
More examples"He could possibly understand a man wishing to blacken the gray as he aged, it was only natural—to a point, and then it was not. But to brassen one's hair like a homosexual?"
Etymology
From brass + -en.
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