enrich
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English enrichen, from Anglo-Norman enrichir and Old French enrichier.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈɹɪt͡ʃ/
- Rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Audio (Southern England): (file)
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. [from 14th c.]
- Hobbies enrich lives.
- The choke in a car engine enriches the fuel mixture.
- Synonym: endow
- Antonyms: impoverish, lean, derich, disenrich
- (transitive) To adorn, ornate more richly. [from 17th c.]
- (transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize. [from 17th c.]
- 2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 January 2013, page 59:
- European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
- Antonym: impoverish
- (physics, transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel. [from 20th c.]
- (transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.
- (chemistry) To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.
Derived terms
- enrichable, enriched (adj), enricher, enrichment
Translations
to enhance — see enhance
to make rich(er)
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to adorn, ornate more richly
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to add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize
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to increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes
to add nutrients to foodstuffs
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chemistry: to make to rise the proportion of a given constituent
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See also
References
- James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Enrich”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 198, column 2.
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