enrich
/ɪnˈɹɪt͡ʃ/ verb B1- To enhance.
- To make (someone or something) rich or richer. · Hobbies enrich lives.· The choke in a car engine enriches the fuel mixture.
- To adorn, ornate more richly.
- To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize.
- To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel.
- To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.
- To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.
He/she/it enriches · Past enriched · Past participle enriched · -ing form enriching
Verb forms
- Base form
- enrich
- He/she/it
- enriches
- Past
- enriched
- Past participle
- enriched
- -ing form
- enriching
From the library
As for me, I consider the union with Mademoiselle Danglars a most suitable one; she will enrich you, and you will ennoble her.”
These 900,000 francs will go out of the family in order to enrich some hospital; but it is ridiculous thus to yield to the caprices of an old man, and I shall, therefore, act according to my conscience.”
I do not despise bankruptcies, believe me, but they must be those which enrich, not those which ruin.
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