ENRICH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enrich mean? 

• ENRICH (verb)
  The verb ENRICH has 2 senses:

1. make better or improve in quality

2. make wealthy or richer

  Familiarity information: ENRICH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENRICH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they enrich    ... he / she / it enriches   
Past simple: enriched   
Past participle: enriched   
-ing form: enriching   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make better or improve in quality

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

enriched foods

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

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

the oil boom enriched a lot of local people

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)

 Context examples 

The result: Ancient seawater was enriched with about 4 parts per thousand more of a heavy Isotope of oxygen than an ice-free ocean of today.

(Scientists determine early Earth was a ‘water world’ by studying exposed ocean crust, National Science Foundation)

Upon intravenous administration, autologous CD19CAR-CD28-CD3zeta-EGFRt-expressing Tcm-enriched T cells are directed to CD19-expressing tumor cells, thereby inducing a selective toxicity in CD19-expressing tumor cells.

(Autologous CD19CAR-CD28-CD3zeta-EGFRt-expressing Tcm-enriched T Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

The CD34+ HPCs are treated with a combination of cytokines which specifically support LC development, and the LC population is enriched and expanded ex vivo.

(Autologous CT7/MAGE-A3/WT1 mRNA-Electroporated Langerhans-Type Dendritic Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

The microchip device, called the CTC-iChip, enriches CTCs by removing blood cells.

(Isolated cancer cells may lead to personalized treatments, NIH)

This clay-enriched region, located on the side of lower Mount Sharp, stood out to NASA orbiters before Curiosity landed in 2012.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Finds a Clay Cache, NASA)

Brain cells from mice fed diets enriched with extra-virgin olive oil had higher levels of autophagy and reduced levels of amyloid plaques and phosphorylated tau, said senior investigator Domenico Praticò.

(Study: Olive Oil Protects Brain From Alzheimer’s, VOA News)

Methane is produced by bacteria that digest straw ploughed back into fields in paddy fields to enrich it.

(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)

An extract of soybeans enriched in Bowman-Birk inhibitor (BBI), a soybean-derived, 71-amino acid, polypeptide and serine protease inhibitor with potential chemopreventive activity.

(Bowman-Birk inhibitor concentrate, NCI Thesaurus)

The resulting pool will be enriched for those cDNA species unique to the tester cells.

(cDNA Subtraction, NCI Thesaurus/OSP)

Oligofructose-enriched inulin helps healthy bacteria grow in the intestines and helps the body absorb calcium and magnesium.

(Oligofructose-enriched inulin, NCI Dictionary)