enrich
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 →
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 →
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 →
- 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).
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «enrich» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.