enrich
(verb) make better or improve in quality; “The experience enriched her understanding”; “enriched foods”
enrich
(verb) make wealthy or richer; “the oil boom enriched a lot of local people”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
• 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
8 May 2025
(noun) the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
