regreen

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verb

To make green again (especially urban developments or ripened fruit).

Scrabble 8

Meanings

verbregreen (third-person singular simple present regreens, present participle regreening, simple past and past participle regreened)

present singular third person regreens · participle present regreening · participle past regreened · past regreened

  1. transitiveTo make green again (especially urban developments or ripened fruit).

    The rites that artichokes serve, of course, are spring’s, the annual cleaning and regreening of the palate after the long winter.

    2007 May 27, Sara Dickerman, “Queen of Hearts”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2015
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    Given the role of climate in desertification and regreening, resolving the attribution question (i.e., of land cover change to climatic or human factors) is of relevance to adaptation to climate change

    2016 January 1, Giannini et al., “A Quantitative Evaluation of the Multiple Narratives of the Recent Sahelian Regreening”, in Weather, Climate, and Society, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2026

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Germanic*grōniz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*grōnī
  8. Old Englishgrēne
  9. Middle Englishgrene
  10. Englishgreen
  11. Englishregreen

From re- + green.

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APA

regreen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/regreen

MLA

“regreen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/regreen. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “regreen,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/regreen.

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