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Endowed vs Enrich - What's the difference?

endowed | enrich |

As verbs the difference between endowed and enrich

is that endowed is (endow) while enrich is to make (someone) rich or richer.

As an adjective endowed

is pertaining to an endowment, as with an endowed chair at a university.

endowed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (endow)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to an endowment, as with an endowed chair at a university.
  • Derived terms

    * well-endowed

    enrich

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To make (someone) rich or richer.
  • To adorn, ornate more richly.
  • To improve the state of something.
  • Hobbies enrich lives.
  • To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
  • , author=Nancy Langston , title=The Fraught History of a Watery World , volume=101, issue=1, page=59 , magazine= citation , passage=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.}}
  • (physics) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel.
  • To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify
  • Synonyms

    * endow

    Antonyms

    * impoverish * (to fertilize) impoverish * (to increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes) deplete

    Derived terms

    * enricher * enrichment

    Anagrams

    * richen

    See also

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