enrich Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb make better or improve in quality
- The experience enriched her understanding
- enriched foods
verb make wealthy or richer
- the oil boom enriched a lot of local people

F. enrichir; pref. en- (L. in) + riche rich. See Rich.

imperfect & past participle Enriched ; present participle & verbal noun Enriching

To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge.
Seeing, Lord, your great mercy Us hath enriched so openly. Chaucer's Dream.
To supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes.
To make rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil; as, to enrich land by irrigation.
To supply with knowledge; to instruct; to store; -- said of the mind. Sir W. Raleigh.