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Past tense of enrich

regular verb

The past tense of enrich is enriched. The past participle is also enriched.

Forms of enrich

Base form (V1)enrich /ɪnˈɹɪt͡ʃ/
Past tense (V2)enriched
Past participle (V3)enriched
Present participleenriching
Third person singularenriches

Enriched in a sentence

  • 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...
  • Employment, especially, because this is where technology enriched by AIs seems to be causing the most pain.2024 February 17, Tom Lamont, “‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an…. From the entry technopessimist
  • He mainly enriched himself and his family and gave rich people another tax cut.2021 September 18, bhellbus, “Comment on 'Are the GOP psychopaths?'”, in r/chomsky, Reddit, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2022. From the entry psychopath
  • American muffins are chemically leavened, enriched, semi-sweet quickbreads baked in individual portions.2015, Darra Goldstein, editor, The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, page 465. From the entry American muffin
  • Cultivation of hyperaccumulators on naturally enriched areas offers the greatest promise for use in phytomining.2005 May, J. Scott Angle, Nicholas A. Linacre, “Cultivation on Naturally Enriched Areas”, in Ecological Risks of Novel Environmental Crop…. From the entry phytomining

Meaning of enrich

  1. verb To enhance.
  2. verb To make (someone or something) rich or richer.
  3. verb To adorn, ornate more richly.

Full definition of enrich

Questions about the past tense of enrich

What is the past tense of enrich?
The past tense of enrich is enriched.
What is the past participle of enrich?
The past participle of enrich is enriched.
Is enrich a regular or irregular verb?
Enrich is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: enrich (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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