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greening

1 4.3

Fresh green growth returns to plants and land after winter

noun
/ˈɡriːnɪŋ/

: renovación

He closed the book and looked across the arid but greening plain.

Examples

As winter fades, the greening of the fields signals the arrival of warmer days.
I lean back, look out at the beaded curtains of warm, greening rain.

Fiction book (1990)
When gentle April showers cleanse God's greening earth,

Blog text (11)
Bees plumbed the wildflowers, and prairie birds chortled in the greening grass.

Fiction book (1994)
Mature wheat fields, greening cottonwoods, and the visual expanse of the Great Plains stimulated a flood of memories on that warm and bright June summer's day.

Academic text (1990)
In spring, the greening of the landscape brings new life to the gardens and parks.
The greening effect on the trees is a welcome sight after the long, cold months.

Synonyms

rejuvenation

vsgreening

13 5.4

To make a person or thing seem younger and fresher

is limited to plants and landscapes regaining freshness after a dormant period

Antonyms

to decay

37 4.4

To slowly fall into ruin because of age or neglect

dormancy

3 6.2

A time when a plant or animal is inactive and not growing

How Green

lushness

1 4.4

greening

1 4.3

leafing

Specialized

1 3.1

sprouting

2 2.8

Surface Forms

greening singular

greenings plural

Morphology

greening = green (transparent) = green + ing

Standard verb nominalization/gerund from 'green' meaning 'to make or become green', so the process sense is directly derived.

Etymology

Greening comes from the simple word green, which long ago meant 'growing' and the colour of fresh plants. So, greening describes the return of life and new leaves in nature after a quiet season.