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engreen

engreen verb: to make something green.

Verb

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

  1. (poetic, rare, transitive) To make something green.
    • Giving him up, she kept the art
      Still to engreen his desert part […]1939, Mark Van Doren, Collected Poems, 1922-1938, page 304
    • Here moss engreens the travelled stone; […]1953, Chicago Review, volume 7, University of Chicago Press

Forms of engreen

third-person singular presentengreens
present participleengreening
past participleengreened
pastengreened

Origin of engreen

From en- + green.

Words that rhyme with engreen

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Questions about engreen

What does engreen mean?
Engreen means to make something green.
What part of speech is engreen?
Engreen is a verb.
What is the past tense of engreen?
The past tense of engreen is engreened.

Words near engreen in the dictionary

  1. engreaten
  2. engreatened
  3. engreatening
  4. engreatens
  5. Engred
  6. engreen
  7. engreened
  8. engreening
  9. engreens
  10. engrieve
  11. engrieved

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