enrich
verb/ɪnˈɹɪt͡ʃ/
Etymology From Middle English enrichen, from Anglo-Norman enrichir and Old French enrichier. By surface analysis, en- + rich.
7 senses
- 1To enhance.
- 2To make (someone or something) rich or richer.
- 3To adorn, ornate more richly.
- 4To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize.
- 5To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of…
- 6To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.
- 7To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.
1
To enhance.
2
To make (someone or something) rich or richer.
- Hobbies enrich lives.
- The choke in a car engine enriches the fuel mixture.
3
To adorn, ornate more richly.
4
To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize.
- European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.2013 January 23, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2013, page 59:
5
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel.
- The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog says US strikes on Iran fell short of causing total damage to its nuclear program and that Tehran could restart enriching uranium “in a matter of months,” contradicting President Donald Trump’s claims the US set Tehran’s ambitions back by decades.2025 June 29, Laura Sharman and Sophie Tanno, “UN nuclear watchdog chief says Iran could again begin enriching uranium in ‘matter of months’”, in CNN:
6
To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.
7
Chemistry, Natural sciences, Physical sciences To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.
- Antonyms
- impoverish
- Derived terms
- coenrich, enantioenrich, enrichability, enrichable, enriched, enrichee, enricher, immunoenrich, overenrich
- Related terms
- look out for number one, every man for himself, feather one's nest, feather one's own nest, pay