ENRICH

enrich

(verb) make better or improve in quality; ā€œThe experience enriched her understandingā€; ā€œenriched foodsā€

enrich

(verb) make wealthy or richer; ā€œthe oil boom enriched a lot of local peopleā€

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

enrich (third-person singular simple present enriches, present participle enriching, simple past and past participle enriched)

(transitive) To enhance.

(transitive) To make (someone or something) rich or richer.

Synonym: endow

Antonym: impoverish

(transitive) To adorn, ornate more richly.

(transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize.

Antonym: impoverish

(physics, transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel.

Antonym: deplete

(transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify

(chemistry) To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.

To add new elements, to complete.

Anagrams

• Rhenic, incher, nicher, rhenic, richen

Source: Wiktionary


En*rich", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enriched; p. pr. & vb. n. Enriching.] Etym: [F. enrichir; pref. en- (L. in) + riche rich. See Rich.]

1. To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge. Seeing, Lord, your great mercy Us hath enriched so openly. Chaucer's Dream.

2. To supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes.

3. To make rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil; as, to enrich land by irrigation.

4. To supply with knowledge; to instruct; to store; -- said of the mind. Sir W. Raleigh.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ā€˜the father of the brideā€™ instead of ā€˜the brideā€™s fatherā€™


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