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🌱 To become green again 🌳 To plant again
to regreen

to regreen

5.8
To make a place or activity more natural and full of plants by planting and other steps
  • verb
  • /riˈɡrin/
translation icon : reforestar
  • The city plans to regreen its parks by planting thousands of new trees.

Examples

  • Many organizations are working to regreen urban areas by introducing more green spaces.

  • After years of pollution, the company decided to regreen its manufacturing process.

  • We need to regreen our community parks.

  • The city plans to regreen the abandoned lot.

  • The city plans to regreen its parks by planting thousands of new trees.

  • Many organizations are working to regreen urban areas by introducing more green spaces.

  • After years of pollution, the company decided to regreen its manufacturing process.

Synonyms

to reforest
vsto regreen
1 4.4

To plant trees on land where a forest was cut down or destroyed

is broader covering many plants and other ecofriendly actions not only trees
to revegetate
vsto regreen
  • Specialized
1 6.8

To make bare land grow plants again

also uses wider ecofriendly methods rather than only restoring plant cover

Antonyms

to destroy
∞ 1.0

Damage something so badly that it cannot be used or fixed

How Green

to reforest
1 4.4
to revegetate
  • Specialized
1 6.8
to regreen
5.8
to replant
14 3.3
to reseed
1 4.2
to plant
361 1.0

Surface Forms

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

Morphology

regreen = green (transparent) = re + green

The word is a regular prefixed form meaning to do the greening action again.

Etymology

Regreen is built from the prefix re-, like in redo, meaning 'again', and green, meaning 'plants' or 'environmentally friendly'. So to regreen a place means to make it green again by planting trees or using greener methods, which is why people use it for both restoring nature and making things more eco-friendly.