enrich
verb (used with object)
to supply with riches, wealth, abundant or valuable possessions, etc..
were enriching
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past progressiveof enrich.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The False Claims Act dates back to 1863, when Congress, fearful that people who were supplying the Union Army were enriching themselves by defrauding the government, enacted it.
From Salon ● May 20, 2025
I think we were enriching each other just from the jump from our Zoom meetings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
Along with South Korean employees, Yajima exposed how donations meant for survivors’ welfare were enriching South Korea’s biggest and most powerful Buddhist order, Jogye.
From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2022
Eventually she tried to give them things to do that were enriching.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2015
While the kings were ruining themselves by their great enterprises, and the nobles exhausting their resources by private wars, the lower orders were enriching themselves by commerce.
From American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville
