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Definition of Enrich

1. Verb. Make better or improve in quality. "Enriched foods"

2. Verb. Make wealthy or richer. "The oil boom enriched a lot of local people"

Definition of Enrich

1. v. t. To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge.

Definition of Enrich

1. Verb. (transitive) To make (someone) rich or richer. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To adorn, ornate more richly. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To improve the state of something. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize. ¹

5. Verb. (physics) (transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Enrich

1. to add desirable elements to [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Enrich

enravished enravishes enravishing enravishingly enravishment enravishments enravisht enregister enregistered enregistering

enregisters enrheum enrheumed enrheuming enrheums enrich (current term) enriched enriched medium enriched uranium enrichen

enrichened enrichening enrichens enricher enrichers enriches enriching enrichingly enrichings enrichment

Literary usage of Enrich

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"î. enrich, dow, estate (rare); spec, benefice, portion, ... 1. enrich (used with "with"), furnish, gift (chiefly in pp, as an adjective). 2. ..."

2. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"... and becoming poor, that we may enrich the manufacturers of other countries, we shall prosper by our own labor, and enrich our own citizens. ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... and he secretly aspired to plant the Gothic standard on the walls of Rome, and to enrich his army with the accumulated spoils of three hundred triumphs. ..."

4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"But a representative of the senate had at most three years, and often less than three, in which to enrich himself, besides providing for the costs of a ..."

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