enrich
enrich Lexical Profile
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• verb
To improve or enhance the quality, value, or depth of something, especially by adding desirable elements or experiences.
"Studying abroad for a semester will greatly enrich your understanding of other cultures."
To add essential nutrients, vitamins, or fertile matter to food or soil in order to increase its nutritional value or productivity.
"Gardeners often use organic compost to enrich the soil before planting spring vegetables."
To make a person, organization, or country financially wealthy or wealthier.
"The flourishing spice trade helped enrich the coastal merchant cities during the Renaissance."
To increase the proportion of a particular fissile isotope in a nuclear fuel element, such as uranium, beyond its natural level.
"Specialized gas centrifuges are used to enrich uranium for use in commercial nuclear power reactors."
• Rhymes for enrich
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Old French enrichir, formed from the prefix en- ('to make') and riche ('wealthy, powerful'), which itself was borrowed from Frankish *riki.