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語源

From 中期英語 enrichen, from Anglo-Norman enrichir and Old French enrichier. By surface analysis, en- +‎ rich.

発音

• IPA: /ɪnˈɹɪt͡ʃ/
• 韻: -ɪtʃ

動詞

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

1. (transitive) To enhance.

   Synonyms: increment, raise, up; see also Thesaurus:augment

2. (transitive) To make (someone or something) rich or richer. [from 14th c.]

   Synonyms: enrichen, richen; see also Thesaurus:enrich

   Antonyms: impoverish, lean, derich, disenrich

   Hobbies enrich lives.

   The choke in a car engine enriches the fuel mixture.

3. (transitive) To adorn, ornate more richly. [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: array, bedeck, dress up; see also Thesaurus:decorate

4. (transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize. [from 17th c.]

   Antonym: impoverish

   • 2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 January 2013, page 59:

     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.

5. (physics, transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel. [from 20th c.]

   Antonyms: deplete, downblend

   • 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:

     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.

6. (transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.
7. (chemistry) To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.

派生語

参考

• look out for number one
• every man for himself
• feather one's nest/feather one's own nest

参照

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Enrich”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 198, column 2.

アナグラム

• Rhenic, incher, nicher, rhenic, richen