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🌱 To become green again 🌳 To plant again
to regreen

to regreen

6.2
To grow plants again after damage like fire or drought
  • verb
  • /riˈɡrin/
translation icon : volver a reverdecer
  • After the fire, it took years for the land to regreen.

Examples

  • The forest will regreen after the rain.

  • After the rainy season, the once dry fields started to regreen, bringing life back to the landscape.

  • After the heavy rains, the fields began to regreen and looked full of life again.

  • It can take several months for a burned forest to regreen after a wildfire.

  • The park slowly regreened as spring arrived and new grass started to grow.

  • The forest began to regreen after the fire, with new sprouts emerging from the ground.

  • As spring arrived, the garden would regreen, transforming the brown earth into a lush, vibrant space.

Synonyms

to green
vsto regreen
12 3.8

Become covered with new leaves or grass

does this change specifically as land recovers from drought fire or winter
to rejuvenate
vsto regreen
  • Specialized
1 6.4

Make land or rivers look younger and have stronger water flow

focuses on restoring leaf color rather than general renewal or youthfulness
to revegetate
vsto regreen
  • Specialized
1 6.8

To make bare land grow plants again

returns leaf color and plant growth after drought fire or winter

Antonyms

to wither
91 4.4

To become dry and weak, as with plants or feelings

How Green

to revegetate
  • Specialized
1 6.8
to regreen
6.2
to green
12 3.8
to sprout
68 2.0

Surface Forms

regreen infinitive
regreened past
regreened past participle
regreening present participle
regreens third person singular

Morphology

regreen = green (transparent) = re + green

The prefix 're-' straightforwardly adds the meaning 'again' to the verb 'green'.

Etymology

Regreen is built from the prefix re-, like in redo, meaning 'again', and green, meaning 'plants' or the 'color green'. Think of a dry field becoming 'green again', so regreen means to become green again after drought, fire, or winter.