(intransitive, of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
(transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
Exempel
Embrown'd with native bronze, lo! Henley stands.
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.
My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.
the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead