brown-v; 2 Senses

Sense Number 1: Fry in a cooking vessel until changing color.

Examples:
Brown the meat in the pan.
Brown only the top of the bread in the oven.
Be sure not to brown the bacon too much at first.

Mappings:
VerbNet: cooking-45.3
FrameNet: Apply_heat
PropBank: NP
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 2: (Cause to) become brown by some mechanism other than cooking.

Examples:
Teenagers will often brown their skin in the summer sun.
The draught browned the leaves on the tree in the yard.
Wallpaper browns over time.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NP
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2