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enrich

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From Middle English enrichen, from Anglo-Norman enrichir and Old French enrichier.

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enrich (third-person singular simple present enriches, present participle enriching, simple past and past participle enriched)

  1. (transitive) To enhance.
  2. (transitive) To make (someone or something) rich or richer. [from 14th c.]
    Hobbies enrich lives.
    The choke in a car engine enriches the fuel mixture.
    Synonym: endow
    Antonyms: impoverish, lean, derich, disenrich
  3. (transitive) To adorn, ornate more richly. [from 17th c.]
  4. (transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize. [from 17th c.]
    • 2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 January 2013, page 59:
      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.
    Antonym: impoverish
  5. (physics, transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel. [from 20th c.]
    Antonym: deplete
    Antonym: downblend
  6. (transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.
  7. (chemistry) To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.

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