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en⋅rich

  [en-rich]
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–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   (ěn-rĭch')   
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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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : enrich
Spanish: enriquecer,
German: bereichern,
Japanese: 豊かにする
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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