engreen

English

Etymology

en- +‎ green

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːn

Verb

engreen (third-person singular simple present engreens, present participle engreening, simple past and past participle engreened)

1. (transitive, rare, poetic) To make something green.
   • 1939, Mark Van Doren, Collected Poems, 1922-1938, page 304:

     Giving him up, she kept the art
     Still to engreen his desert part […]

   • 1953, Chicago Review‎^[1], volume 7, University of Chicago Press:

     Here moss engreens the travelled stone; […]