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say it: GREE-ning
greening is a noun meaning "the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored". It carries one recorded sense.
the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored
“the annual rejuvenation of the landscape”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for greening come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.