enrich
Americanverb (used with object)
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to supply with riches, wealth, abundant or valuable possessions, etc..
Commerce enriches a nation.
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to supply with abundance of anything desirable.
to enrich the mind with knowledge.
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to add greater value or significance to.
Art enriches life.
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to adorn or decorate.
a picture frame enriched with gold.
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to make finer in quality, as by supplying desirable elements or ingredients.
to enrich soil.
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Physics. to increase the proportion of a valuable mineral or isotope in (a substance or material).
The fuel was enriched with uranium 235 for the nuclear reactor.
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Nutrition.
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to restore to (a food) a nutrient that has been lost during an early stage of processing.
to enrich flour with thiamine, iron, niacin, and riboflavin.
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to add vitamins and minerals to (food) to enhance its nutritive value.
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verb
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to increase the wealth of
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to endow with fine or desirable qualities
to enrich one's experience by travelling
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to make more beautiful; adorn; decorate
a robe enriched with jewels
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to improve in quality, colour, flavour, etc
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to increase the food value of by adding nutrients
to enrich dog biscuits with calcium
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to make (soil) more productive, esp by adding fertilizer
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physics to increase the concentration or abundance of one component or isotope in (a solution or mixture); concentrate
to enrich a solution by evaporation
enrich a nuclear fuel
Other Word Forms
- enriched adjective
- enricher noun
- enrichingly adverb
- enrichment noun
- self-enriching adjective
- unenriching adjective
Etymology
Origin of enrich
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English enrichen, from Old French enrichir; equivalent to en- 1 + rich
Example Sentences
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The material can be fairly quickly enriched to the 90% threshold needed for weapons-grade uranium.
From BBC
The highly enriched uranium is likely contained in 40 to 50 special cylinders that resemble scuba tanks.
Securing Iran’s stores of enriched uranium could be feasible with special-operations forces and other troops, but it would be a highly complex mission.
Colonies receiving the enriched diet produced up to 15 times more larvae that reached the pupal stage compared with those on standard diets.
From Science Daily
Those are the stockpiles of fissile material and the deep-underground Pickaxe Mountain site that could in time be used to enrich it to weapons-grade.
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