enrich
- (transitive) To enhance.
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) rich or richer.
- (transitive) To adorn, ornate more richly.
- (transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize.
- (transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel.
- (transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.
- To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.
Opposite of
impoverish, lean, derich, disenrich, deplete, downblend
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪnˈɹɪt͡ʃ/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English enrichen, from Anglo-Norman enrichir and Old French enrichier. By surface analysis, en- + rich.
make rich
make wealthy
enhance
add to
make better
to be better
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