enrich

Meaning

  1. (transitive) To enhance.
  2. (transitive) To make (someone or something) rich or richer.
  3. (transitive) To adorn, ornate more richly.
  4. (transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize.
  5. (transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel.
  6. (transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.
  7. To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.

Opposite of
impoverish, lean, derich, disenrich, deplete, downblend
Frequency

28k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪnˈɹɪt͡ʃ/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle English enrichen, from Anglo-Norman enrichir and Old French enrichier. By surface analysis, en- + rich.

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