bronze

1. (of the skin) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.Examples: "That girl was dynamite. Dark hair with killer blue eyes, bronze skin, and an exquisite full-figured body."

1. (transitive) To plate with bronze.Examples: "My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes."transitive

2. (transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.Examples: "The sun was so low that its level rays shot through the tunnels of the forest and bronzed its ceiling of woven leaves when Bess returned to the clearing."; "North is the bay of Acre, lovely in shape, and, far, far beyond, the cloudy vision of Hermon, its huge landscape now only attainable with a police pass—beautifully solitary except for good-looking young men of the police patrols, all fit and bronzed."transitive

3. (intransitive, of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.Examples: "His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day."intransitive

4. (transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.Examples: "the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead"transitive

5. (intransitive) To finish in third place; to win a bronze medal.Examples: "Louganis' runner-up count was 822.09, and Boggs bronzed at 783.78."; "Her speedskating teammate, Leah Poulos, captured a 1000m silver in 1976, behind Tatiana Averina of the Soviet Union, who also took the gold in the 3000m and bronzed in the 500m and the 1500m."; "Rauch plays has-been athlete Hope Ann Greggory, who bronzed at the Olympics by prevailing over a performance-incurred injury that would later effectively end her career."intransitive