Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make rich or richer.
- transitive verb To make fuller, more meaningful, or more rewarding.
- transitive verb To add fertilizer to.
- transitive verb To add nutrients to.
- transitive verb To add to the beauty or character of; adorn.
- transitive verb Physics To increase the amount of one or more radioactive isotopes in (a material, especially a nuclear fuel).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make rich, wealthy, or opulent; supply with abundant property: as, agriculture, commerce, and manufactures enrich a nation.
- To fertilize; make fertile; supply with nutriment for plants.
- To supply with an abundance of anything desirable; fill or store: as, to
enrich the mind with knowledge, science, or useful observations. - To supply with anything splendid or ornamental; adorn: as, to
enrich a painting with elegant drapery; to enrich a poem or an oration with striking metaphors or images; to enrich a capital with sculpture. - Synonyms To endow.
- To decorate, ornament, embellish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of.
- transitive verb To supply with ornament; to adorn.
- transitive verb To make rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil.
- transitive verb To supply with knowledge; to instruct; to store; -- said of the mind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make (someone)
rich orricher . - verb transitive To
adorn ,ornate more richly. - verb transitive To
improve the state of something. - verb transitive To add
nutrients orfertilizer to thesoil ; tofertilize . - verb physics (
transitive ) Toincrease the amount of oneisotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in anuclear fuel . - verb transitive To add
nutrients to foodstuffs; tofortify
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make better or improve in quality
- verb make wealthy or richer
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And by that they include also the right to enrich, which is true.
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Venus Erycina -- to enrich, that is, the worship of that goddess, who had a favorite temple under Mount Eryx.
Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848
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It was not called a enrich banks not in trouble bill.
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Mr. WILSON: We have the American Heart Association tour, where, you know, and I think that's another thing that gospel music can do is like connect with things that aren't, you know, spiritual per se but, you know, do kind of enrich us spiritually if we do them, if we the choices to end stroke.
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Mr. WILSON: We have the American Heart Association tour, where, you know, and I think that's another thing that gospel music can do is like connect with things that aren't, you know, spiritual per se but, you know, do kind of enrich us spiritually if we do them, if we the choices to end stroke.
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Mr. WILSON: We have the American Heart Association tour, where, you know, and I think that's another thing that gospel music can do is like connect with things that aren't, you know, spiritual per se but, you know, do kind of enrich us spiritually if we do them, if we the choices to end stroke.
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Mr. WILSON: We have the American Heart Association tour, where, you know, and I think that's another thing that gospel music can do is like connect with things that aren't, you know, spiritual per se but, you know, do kind of enrich us spiritually if we do them, if we the choices to end stroke.
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Mr. WILSON: We have the American Heart Association tour, where, you know, and I think that's another thing that gospel music can do is like connect with things that aren't, you know, spiritual per se but, you know, do kind of enrich us spiritually if we do them, if we the choices to end stroke.
jeen0809 commented on the word enrich
The fine arts enrich our lives.
April 14, 2007