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Fortified vs Enriched - What's the difference?

fortified | enriched |

As verbs the difference between fortified and enriched

is that fortified is (fortify) while enriched is (enrich).

fortified

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fortify)

  • fortify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To increase the defenses of; to strengthen and secure by military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.
  • To impart strength or vigor to.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution.
  • *
  • To increase the effectiveness of, as by additional ingredients.
  • * 1979 , Kiplinger's Personal Finance (volume 33, number 7, July 1979, page 47)
  • Compare the nutrition information label of a regular ready-to-eat fortified cereal with that of a presweetened brand and you'll note that, although the sweetened one's sugar content is higher, the fortification is virtually identical.

    enriched

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (enrich)
  • Anagrams

    *

    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