Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To make rich or richer.
  • transitive verb To make fuller, more meaningful, or more rewarding.
  • transitive verb To add fertilizer to.
  • transitive verb To add nutrients to.
  • transitive verb To add to the beauty or character of; adorn.
  • transitive verb Physics To increase the amount of one or more radioactive isotopes in (a material, especially a nuclear fuel).

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make rich, wealthy, or opulent; supply with abundant property: as, agriculture, commerce, and manufactures enrich a nation.
  • To fertilize; make fertile; supply with nutriment for plants.
  • To supply with an abundance of anything desirable; fill or store: as, to enrich the mind with knowledge, science, or useful observations.
  • To supply with anything splendid or ornamental; adorn: as, to enrich a painting with elegant drapery; to enrich a poem or an oration with striking metaphors or images; to enrich a capital with sculpture.
  • Synonyms To endow.
  • To decorate, ornament, embellish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of.
  • transitive verb To supply with ornament; to adorn.
  • transitive verb To make rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil.
  • transitive verb To supply with knowledge; to instruct; to store; -- said of the mind.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To make (someone) rich or richer.
  • verb transitive To adorn, ornate more richly.
  • verb transitive To improve the state of something.
  • verb transitive To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize.
  • verb physics (transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel.
  • verb transitive To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb make better or improve in quality
  • verb make wealthy or richer

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English enrichen, from Old French enrichier : en-, causative pref.; see en– + riche, rich; see rich.]

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Middle English, from Anglo-Norman enrichir.

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Examples

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  • Mr. WILSON: We have the American Heart Association tour, where, you know, and I think that's another thing that gospel music can do is like connect with things that aren't, you know, spiritual per se but, you know, do kind of enrich us spiritually if we do them, if we the choices to end stroke.

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  • Mr. WILSON: We have the American Heart Association tour, where, you know, and I think that's another thing that gospel music can do is like connect with things that aren't, you know, spiritual per se but, you know, do kind of enrich us spiritually if we do them, if we the choices to end stroke.

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  • Mr. WILSON: We have the American Heart Association tour, where, you know, and I think that's another thing that gospel music can do is like connect with things that aren't, you know, spiritual per se but, you know, do kind of enrich us spiritually if we do them, if we the choices to end stroke.

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  • Mr. WILSON: We have the American Heart Association tour, where, you know, and I think that's another thing that gospel music can do is like connect with things that aren't, you know, spiritual per se but, you know, do kind of enrich us spiritually if we do them, if we the choices to end stroke.

    Musician And Historian Honor Gospel Music History 2010

  • Mr. WILSON: We have the American Heart Association tour, where, you know, and I think that's another thing that gospel music can do is like connect with things that aren't, you know, spiritual per se but, you know, do kind of enrich us spiritually if we do them, if we the choices to end stroke.

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  • The fine arts enrich our lives.

    April 14, 2007