English

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Etymology

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From en- +‎ green.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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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; []