Timeline for Can the word "greening" be used in the sense of "being green" or "turning green"?
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| Mar 18, 2020 at 15:38 | comment | added | John Lawler | Pretty much any causative verb (like green, meaning 'make green', as in The Greening of America) can also be used as an inchoative verb. Redden, to choose a different color that has a causative/inchoative suffix, can mean either 'make something red' (a causative sense) or 'turn/become red' (an inchoative change-of-state sense). It's just not as common, but with the added semantic and political senses of green these days, it's gonna get more common. | |
| Mar 18, 2020 at 12:41 | comment | added | Michael | Interesting, I haven't heard of a citrus tree disease called like that. I don't think it may cause any misunderstanding in my case because the tree is a sycamore. | |
| Mar 18, 2020 at 12:35 | vote | accept | Michael | ||
| Mar 18, 2020 at 12:05 | comment | added | Hot Licks | There are so many different meanings of "green" that it's impossible to give a reasonably complete answer. | |
| Mar 18, 2020 at 11:47 | answer | added | Rayan Khan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 18, 2020 at 11:33 | answer | added | Laurel♦ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 18, 2020 at 11:07 | history | asked | Michael | CC BY-SA 4.0 |