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en·rich    Audio Help   [en-rich] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used with object)
1.to supply with riches, wealth, abundant or valuable possessions, etc.: Commerce enriches a nation.
2.to supply with abundance of anything desirable: to enrich the mind with knowledge.
3.to add greater value or significance to: Art enriches life.
4.to adorn or decorate: a picture frame enriched with gold.
5.to make finer in quality, as by supplying desirable elements or ingredients: to enrich soil.
6.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.
7.Nutrition.
a.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.
b.to add vitamins and minerals to (food) to enhance its nutritive value.
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME enrichen < OF enrichir. See en-1, rich]

—Related forms
en·rich·er, noun
en·rich·ing·ly, adverb

—Synonyms 3. elevate, improve, enhance, endow.
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en·rich    Audio Help   (ěn-rĭch')  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   en·riched, en·rich·ing, en·rich·es
  1. To make rich or richer.
  2. To make fuller, more meaningful, or more rewarding: An appreciation of art will enrich your life.
  3. To add fertilizer to.
  4. To add nutrients to: The dairy enriched its milk with vitamin D.
  5. To add to the beauty or character of; adorn: "Glittering tears enriched her eyes" (Arnold Bennett).
  6. Physics To increase the amount of one or more radioactive isotopes in (a material, especially a nuclear fuel).


[Middle English enrichen, from Old French enrichier : en-, causative pref.; see en-1 + riche, rich; see rich.]

en·rich'er n.
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
enrich 
1382, "to make wealthy," from O.Fr. enrichir, from en- "make, put in" + riche "rich" (see rich). Scientific sense of "to increase the abundance of a particular isotope in some material" is first attested 1945.

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enrich

verb
1. make better or improve in quality; "The experience enriched her understanding"; "enriched foods" [ant: deprive] 
2. make wealthy or richer; "the oil boom enriched a lot of local people" [ant: impoverish] 

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enrich [inˈritʃ] verb
to improve the quality of
Example: Fertilizers enrich the soil; Reading enriches the mind; an enriching (= useful and enjoyable) experience
Arabic: يُغْني
Chinese (Simplified): 使丰富
Chinese (Traditional): 使豐富, 改進質量
Czech: obohatit
Danish: berige; forbedre
Dutch: verrijken
Estonian: rikastama
Finnish: rikastuttaa
French: enrichir
German: bereichern
Greek: (εμ)πλουτίζω
Hungarian: gazdagít
Icelandic: auðga; efnabæta
Indonesian: memperkaya
Italian: arricchire
Japanese: 豊かにする
Korean: 부유하게 하다
Latvian: bagātināt; uzlabot (augsni, garšu)
Lithuanian: praturtinti, pagerinti
Norwegian: berike
Polish: wzbogacać
Portuguese (Brazil): enriquecer
Portuguese (Portugal): enriquecer
Romanian: a îngrăşa; a îmbogăţi
Russian: обогащать
Slovak: obohatiť
Slovenian: obogatiti
Spanish: enriquecer
Swedish: berika, odla, utveckla
Turkish: zenginleştirmek, zengin etmek
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Enrich

En*rich"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enriched; p. pr. & vb. n. Enriching.] [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.
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