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inrich

inrich is the obsolete spelling of enrich.

Meaning of enrich

Verb

enrich (third-person singular simple present enriches, present participle enriching, simple past and past participle enriched)

  1. (transitive) To enhance.
    Synonyms:
    increment, raise, up, add, amplify, augment, dilate, eke / eke out, elevate, embiggen
  2. (transitive) To make (someone or something) rich or richer.
    • Hobbies enrich lives.
    Synonyms:
    enrichen, richen
  3. (transitive) To adorn, ornate more richly.
  4. (transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize.
    • 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.2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2013, page 59
    Antonyms:
    impoverish
  5. (transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel.
    • 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.2025 June 29, Laura Sharman and Sophie Tanno, “UN nuclear watchdog chief says Iran could again begin enriching uranium in ‘matter of months’”, in CNN
    Antonyms:
    deplete, downblend
  6. (transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.

See all 7 meanings of enrich

Forms of inrich

third-person singular presentinriches
present participleinriching
past participleinriched
pastinriched

Questions about inrich

What is inrich the obsolete spelling of?
Inrich is the obsolete spelling of enrich.

Words near inrich in the dictionary

  1. inregister
  2. inregistered
  3. inregistering
  4. inregisters
  5. INRIA
  6. inrich
  7. inriched
  8. inriches
  9. inriching
  10. inrichment
  11. inrichments

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