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enriching
1. adj. That adds value, either monetary, intellectual, or emotional.
That was an enriching experience.
2. n. The act of adding value or enlightening.
enrich
1. v. To enhance.
2. v. To make (someone or something) rich or richer.
Hobbies enrich lives.
The choke in a car engine enriches the fuel mixture.
3. v. To adorn, ornate more richly.
4. v. To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize.
5. v. (physics, transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel.
6. v. To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify
7. v. (chemistry) To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.
8. v. To add new elements, to complete.

Example Sentences

The women who have participated over the years have found it immensely enriching and supportive in helping them come to terms with a situation that is often not of their own choosing.  Enriching poor nations does not mean impoverishing our own.

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