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# enrich

«enrich» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make something better, fuller or more interesting by…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (enrich, enriches, enriched, enriching)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make something better, fuller or more interesting by adding something good to it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enrich/#m1)

2) To make someone richer, with more money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enrich/#m2)

3) (science) To add useful things to soil, food or a substance, such as vitamins to flour or compost to soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enrich/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school and everyday life «enrich» is a positive word: reading enriches your vocabulary, trips enrich learning. In science and food labels: «enriched flour», «enriched with vitamins», «compost enriches the soil». In stories, a person who «enriched himself» often got rich in an unfair way.

### examples

- Reading every night will enrich your vocabulary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enrich/#x1)
- Farmers enrich the soil with manure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enrich/#x2)
- This cereal is enriched with iron. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enrich/#x3)
- The school trip enriched our history topic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enrich/#x4)
- Music enriches our lives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enrich/#x5)
- The greedy king enriched himself with the people's gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enrich/#x6)
- Adding compost enriches the vegetable patch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enrich/#x7)
- Meeting children from other countries enriched our class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enrich/#x8)
- “We do not work for gain,” answered the Fox. “We work only to enrich others.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enrich/#x9)

### note

Regular verb: enrich, enriched. Usually positive (makes better). «Enrich yourself» can be negative: get rich at others' cost. Do not confuse with «rich» (adjective) — enrich is the action of making something rich or richer. Noun: enrichment («enrichment activities» at school).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «enrich» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enrich/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.