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enrich

/ɛnˈɹɪtʃ/

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What does enrich mean?

verb

  1. To enhance.
  2. To make (someone or something) rich or richer.
  3. To adorn, ornate more richly.
More meanings (4)

verb

  1. To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize.
  2. To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel.
  3. To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.
  4. To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.

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IPA pronunciation

/ɛnˈɹɪtʃ/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

Other dictionary pronunciations

/ɪnˈɹɪtʃ/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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This wide margin, of course, attracted unscrupulous and greedy adventurers, who if they succeeded in running a few cargoes would enrich themselves.
VariousThe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial IssueProject Gutenberg ebook #206
They burn the fallen leaves and accumulated litter of several years, thus destroying the material with which trees enrich their own soil.
Bolton HallThree Acres and LibertyProject Gutenberg ebook #4509
More book examples (3)
Second, that we shall apply fine-ground rock phosphate in such amounts as to positively enrich our soil in that very deficient element.
Cyril G. (Cyril George) HopkinsThe Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real LifeProject Gutenberg ebook #4527
Hence much domestic waste, which would elsewhere be employed to enrich the soil, is thrown out into vacant places near the town.
George P. (George Perkins) MarshThe Earth as Modified by Human ActionProject Gutenberg ebook #6019
Not but that the rest of the army had so considerable a part of the booty as was sufficient to enrich them all.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674