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to enrich

to enrich

42 3.9
To make a person or country richer by giving them money
  • verb
  • /ɪnˈrɪtʃ/
translation icon : enriquecer
  • So it is empowering to know a little bit more about science, but it's also empowering because it enriches our lives.

In fact, they'll really just enrich the major stockholders.

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Examples

  • Alysssa and Tiana have both honored and enriched us with their daily presence, their meetings with students, staff and faculty, and other Radcliffe Fellows.

  • What we have to do is continuously do things that make us like ourselves more, that enrich us, that add new dimensions to our lives.

  • ...while city merchants enrich themselves from it.

  • Thank you to all of you who work tirelessly for Project PA to enrich the lives of others, many of whom are here today.

  • And we never will, as long as we have a system that enriches the few at the expense of the many.

  • My people have let me down; they fed me lies and enriched themselves.

    Academic text (1991)
  • His whole presidency is going to be about enriching himself and enriching his friends.

  • Deng's economic reforms enriched the largest number of human beings in history.

    Academic text (1998)
  • My promise, and my legacy is that wealth from these metals will be invested solely and exclusively to enrich the people of Paldonia.

  • The new policies were designed to enrich the community by providing better resources and opportunities.

Synonyms

to enhance
vsto enrich
424 4.0

Make something better or more attractive

makes something or someone wealthier rather than generally improving quality
to richen
vsto enrich
4.9

To get more money or make something better

makes someone or something wealthier in money rather than broadly

Antonyms

1.6

To make something smaller in amount, size, or number

14 6.7

Make a person, community, or land poor

Phrasal Verbs

Add compost or other nutrients to soil to make it better for growing plants

How Valuable

to transform
523 3.4
to enrich
42 3.9
to enhance
424 4.0
to improve
1.0

Surface Forms

enrich infinitive
enriched past
enriched past participle
enriching present participle
enriches third person singular

Morphology

enrich = rich (transparent) = en + rich

Productive derivation 'en-' + 'rich' yields the sense 'make wealthy', which is directly inferable from 'rich'.

Etymology

Enrich is built from en- 'make' and rich 'wealthy', which gives a simple image: to 'make rich'. So to enrich a person or a country is to make them richer, for example through trade or good investments.