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ENRICH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make better or improve in quality

Example:

enriched foods

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "enrich" is one way to...):

ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enrich"):

fill out; round out (make bigger or better or more complete)

choke; throttle (reduce the air supply)

feed; fertilise; fertilize (provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Antonym:

deprive (take away)

Derivation:

enrichment (act of making fuller or more meaningful or rewarding)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make wealthy or richer

Example:

the oil boom enriched a lot of local people

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "enrich" is one way to...):

add (make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enrich"):

feather one's nest (enrich oneself by taking advantage of one's position)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Antonym:

impoverish (make poor)

Derivation:

enrichment (a gift that significantly increases the recipient's wealth)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Oligofructose-enriched inulin may be administered in combination with probiotic bifidobacteria.

(Oligofructose-enriched inulin, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes phosphoprotein associated with glycosphingolipid-enriched microdomains 1, is involved in T cell receptor signal transduction repression.

(PAG1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

7H10 growth medium that is enriched by the addition of an enzymatic digest of casein.

(Middlebrook 7H11 Growth Medium, NCI Thesaurus)

A known amount of an enriched isotope of the element of interest is added to the sample and acts as an internal standard.

(Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)

The protein differs strikingly from other G-alpha subunits in amino acid sequence in a number of regions, and it appeared to be highly enriched in neural tissue.

(Guanine Nucleotide-Binding Protein G(z) Subunit Alpha, NCI Thesaurus)

It has long been a belief in the scientific field that the building blocks of brain cells, phospholipids, are enriched by polyunsaturated fatty acids.

(Discovery Challenges Belief about Brain's Cellular Makeup, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The blooms are expected to become worse as the lake continues to be enriched by nitrogen and other nutrients from farm field runoff.

(Research reveals harmful algal blooms' daily cycles, National Science Foundation)

For poverty enriches those who live above it, and is a sure passport to truly hospitable spirits.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The results can be used for improved therapies — targets of known antidepressant medications were enriched in the genetic findings

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Why, there is hardly a foot of soil in all this region that has not been enriched by the blood of men, patriots or invaders.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)