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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of richen.

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Examples

  • Over the generations, Americans of Armenian descent have richened our communities, spurred our economy, and strengthened our democracy.

    Obama avoids labeling massacres of Armenians 'genocide' 2010

  • I am an avid sports fan, but out of all those long and tumultuous summer days none are richened with Professional baseball in Charlotte.

    Archive 2004-12-01 2004

  • I am an avid sports fan, but out of all those long and tumultuous summer days none are richened with Professional baseball in Charlotte.

    Major League Baseball in Charlotte 2004

  • The notes deepened and richened as it continued to grow, until at last they were full, rich, organ sounds.

    Dragon on a Pedestal Anthony, Piers 1983

  • It richened the wondrous luster of her eyes, and deepened their deep brown tenderness of love.

    The Furnace of Gold Philip Verrill Mighels

  • The Rio Grande, jaundiced, erratic as an invalid, wrings its saffron blood from the clay bluffs and gravel canons of the hill country, but near its estuary winds quietly through a low coastal plain which the very impurities of that blood have richened.

    Heart of the Sunset Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • Then colors changed again: violet richened to purple; -- greens blackened softlY; -- grays smouldered into smoky gold.

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • There was nothing attractive about the bond on the cash curve, with it having richened over the last few sessions, and clearly bond markets are suffering huge volatility in thin liquidity at the moment, said Peter

    Weak demand at German 4 bln euro bond sale | Reuters 2010

  • It's bedded down on a knoll of smooth polenta richened in chicken stock, cumin, cream ...

    Dallas Observer | Complete Issue 2009

  • It's bedded down on a knoll of smooth polenta richened in chicken stock, cumin, cream ...

    Dallas Observer | Complete Issue 2009

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