regreen

verb

re·​green (ˌ)rē-ˈgrēn 

variants or re-green

regreened or re-greened; regreening or re-greening

transitive verb

: to make green again

especially : to restore (barren, degraded, or deforested land) to a healthy ecological state by planting vegetation (such as trees, shrubs, grasses, or sustainable crops) often in conjunction with improvements in soil fertility and water retention

… aims to re-green the concrete jungle and protect existing trees from the bulldozers of development.

—Bill Lohmann

The hope is that with the eventual regreening of the island the rare and endangered green parrot, almost wiped out on Norfolk … will be re-established on Philip.

—Stuart Inder

Tree planting has led to the re-greening of as much as 3 million hectares of land in Niger, enabling some 250,000 hectares to be farmed again.

—Andy Coghlan

regreening efforts

a regreening program

Examples of regreen in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Sometimes this treatment can regreen the grass without affecting growth or the environment. —Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 29 May 2021

This could regreen the lawn without encouraging growth. —Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Jan. 2022

Garden centers often carry liquids and granules of iron or minor nutrient products that can be applied to regreen your lawn. —Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 8 May 2021

Many lawns have a hungry look; apply lawn fertilizer to regreen the turf. —Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2022

In Kuku, southern Kenya, they have been used as a water management strategy to revive and regreen degraded land. —Thomas Page, CNN, 18 July 2022

Try to regreen the plants and encourage growth of new shoots with a liquid fertilizer application every other week for a month. —Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 10 July 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1605, in the meaning defined above