enrich

Everyday

1. To make something better, fuller or more interesting by adding something good to it. tree →
2. To make someone richer, with more money. tree →
3. (science) To add useful things to soil, food or a substance, such as vitamins to flour or compost to soil. tree →

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 →
• Farmers enrich the soil with manure. tree →
• This cereal is enriched with iron. tree →
• The school trip enriched our history topic. tree →
• Music enriches our lives. tree →
• The greedy king enriched himself with the people's gold. tree →
• Adding compost enriches the vegetable patch. tree →
• Meeting children from other countries enriched our class. tree →
• “We do not work for gain,” answered the Fox. “We work only to enrich others.” tree →

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).

In Jewish tradition

It means to make rich or plentiful. God enriches the earth with rain, and Tyre enriched kings with its trade.

Interpretation. The psalm praises God for watering the earth, and tradition sees rain as a gift from God alone. Ezekiel's lament shows the great wealth of Tyre, which was soon lost.

Examples

• Thou hast remembered the earth, and watered her, greatly enriching her, with the river of God that is full of water; Thou preparest them corn, for so preparest Thou her. (Writings PSA.65.10, JPS 1917) tree →
• When thy wares came forth out of the seas, thou didst fill many peoples; with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise didst thou enrich the kings of the earth. (Prophets EZK.27.33, JPS 1917) tree →

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).