enrich
/ɪnˈɹɪt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.30 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel.
Transitive verb
verb
To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.
Example Sentences
- "Hobbies enrich lives."
- "The choke in a car engine enriches the fuel mixture."
- "European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River."
- "The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog says US strikes on Iran fell short of causing total damage to its nuclear program and that Tehran could restart enriching uranium “in a matter of months,” contradicting President Donald Trump’s claims the US set Tehran’s ambitions back by decades."
Etymology
From Middle English enrichen, from Anglo-Norman enrichir and Old French enrichier. By surface analysis, en- + rich.