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Enrich vs Nourish - What's the difference?

enrich | nourish |

As verbs the difference between enrich and nourish

is that enrich is to make (someone) rich or richer while nourish is to feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.

As a noun nourish is

a nurse.

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

    nourish

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete) A nurse.
  • Verb

    (es)
  • To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
  • * Bible, Is. xliv. 14
  • He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
  • To support; to maintain.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I in Ireland nourish a mighty band.
  • To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.
  • To cherish; to comfort.
  • * Bible, James v. 5
  • Ye have nourished your hearts.
  • To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.
  • * Bible, 1 Timothy iv. 6
  • Nourished up in the words of faith.
    (Chaucer)
  • To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
  • (obsolete) To gain nourishment.
  • (Francis Bacon)

    Derived terms

    * nourishment