to green
- verb
- /ɡrin/
- Yes, it is finally (thankfully) greening up here, just in time for fall.
Examples
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The wheat grass has grown and greened up like absolute crazy.
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So I'm really excited to see some green plants.
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You can see new little green growth coming out there.
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A nice warm shower to green things up.
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Nice healthy looking roots, some green growth in there.
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Maybe a little later, when the marsh starts to green up?
Fiction book (1998) -
Spring has come to this southern city, however, and under the smog, rice is greening.
Fiction book (2001) -
In his travels at the end, however, he notices the landscape is greening, the fires having burned themselves out.
Academic text (1994) -
A rare midsummer thunderstorm the day before had not only greened the mesquite trees but had also cooled things off.
Fiction book (1998) -
The trees are starting to green with fresh leaves after the long winter.
Synonyms
To grow plants again after damage like fire or drought
Antonyms
Idioms
- Jargon
To look at the slope and surface of a golf green to decide how to hit a putt
Phrasal Verbs
Start choosing and doing things that help the environment, like recycling or using solar power
Compounds
- US
An official card that allows a foreign person to live and work permanently in the United States
A political party that wants to protect the environment and support fair social policies
A period in the 1960s and 1970s when new seeds and fertilizers greatly increased food crops
- Specialized
A way to release software using two identical systems to move users to the new version
A range of mountains in Vermont, USA that are part of the Appalachian Mountains
A river in the western United States that starts in Wyoming and flows south into the Colorado River
- Specialized
Tiny living things in water that make food from light and often look blue-green
- Literature
A soldier in green with no badge sent so a country can deny sending them
A West African monkey that lives in open grasslands with a greenish-grey back and a yellow tail
- Archaic
A soup made from the meat of green turtles, often served as a special food
A low, soft green plant with creeping stems often used to make Christmas wreaths
- South African
A monkey that lives on the African savanna with greenish-grey fur and a yellow tail
A small green or yellow-green toad with black bars and stripes found in North America
How Green
Surface Forms
Etymology
Green as a verb comes from the old English grēne meaning 'to grow' and 'grass', so for land or plants to 'green' is to become covered in new green growth. That's why fields 'green' in spring when new shoots appear.