enrich

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   make better or improve in quality

   The experience enriched my understanding.

2. 2
   verb

   make wealthy or richer

   the oil boom enriched a lot of local people

3. 3
   verb

   To make (someone or something) rich or richer.

   Hobbies enrich lives.

4. 4
   verb

   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.

5. 5
   verb

   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.

6. 6
   verb

   To enhance.

7. 7
   verb

   To adorn, ornate more richly.

8. 8
   verb

   To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.

Etymology

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