Meaning

7 senses
  1. (transitive)To enhance.

  2. (transitive)To make (someone or something) rich or richer.

    Hobbies enrich lives.

    The choke in a car engine enriches the fuel mixture.

    bereichern

    обогащатьobogaščatʹ

    збага́чуватиzbaháčuvaty, збагати́тиzbahatýty

    make wealthy 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.

    anreichern

  6. (transitive)To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.

  7. To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.

Examples

53 sentences
  1. Traveling will immensely enrich our minds.

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  2. Worm castings continually enrich the soil.

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  3. We want to enrich people's lives.

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  4. Yanni wanted to enrich his marriage.

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  5. That enriches my understanding of life.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to make rich(er):
Русский
By meaning 1
to make rich(er):
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to make rich(er):
to increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes:

Origin

From Middle English enrichen, from Anglo-Norman enrichir and Old French enrichier. By surf

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

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Forms

enriches, enriching, enriched, enriched
Base formenrich · to enrich
3rd person singularenriches
Present participleenriching
Past simpleenriched
Past participleenriched

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyenrich
he, she, itenriches

Past simpleLesson

all personsenriched

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave enriched
he, she, ithas enriched

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill enrich

Synonyms

48 synonyms

Antonyms

7 antonyms

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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