enrich

[ en-rich ]

/ ɛnˈrɪtʃ /

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verb (used with object)

to supply with riches, wealth, abundant or valuable possessions, etc.: Commerce enriches a nation.

to supply with abundance of anything desirable: to enrich the mind with knowledge.

to add greater value or significance to: Art enriches life.

to adorn or decorate: a picture frame enriched with gold.

to make finer in quality, as by supplying desirable elements or ingredients: to enrich soil.

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.

Nutrition.

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.
to add vitamins and minerals to (food) to enhance its nutritive value.

Origin of enrich

1350–1400; Middle English enrichen < Old French enrichir. See en-¹, rich

SYNONYMS FOR enrich

3 elevate, improve, enhance, endow.

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OTHER WORDS FROM enrich

en·rich·er, noun en·rich·ing·ly, adverb self-en·rich·ing, adjective un·en·riched, adjective

un·en·rich·ing, adjective

Words nearby enrich

enrage, enrapt, enrapture, enravish, enregister, enrich, enrichment, enrico, enright, enriquillo, enrobe

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Interestingly, enriching to weapons-grade is a red line that the Obama administration has already laid out.

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Jalili said Iran would not back off from enriching uranium as legal under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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Iran would have to step down from enriching uranium to higher levels and to ship out some of its stockpile.

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If a man advocates frankly and sincerely a scheme for enriching himself at the public expense we condemn him.

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It is silly to expect the Government to go on enriching a few of us stockmen at the expense of others.

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They seemed rather desirous of enriching themselves by the abuses in the Church than earnest to correct them.

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But even in the case of India, how many have gone there not to benefit the natives, but with the hope of enriching themselves.

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The Cossacks were the means of enriching the church by recovering the silver looted by the French.

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British Dictionary definitions for enriching

enrich

/ (ɪnˈrɪtʃ) /

verb (tr)

to increase the wealth of

to endow with fine or desirable qualities to enrich one's experience by travelling

to make more beautiful; adorn; decorate a robe enriched with jewels

to improve in quality, colour, flavour, etc

to increase the food value of by adding nutrients to enrich dog biscuits with calcium

to make (soil) more productive, esp by adding fertilizer

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

Derived forms of enrich

enriched, adjective enricher, noun enrichment, noun

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