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Enrich vs Intense - What's the difference?

enrich | intense |

As a verb enrich

is to make (someone) rich or richer.

As an adjective intense is

strained; tightly drawn.

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

    intense

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Strained; tightly drawn.
  • Strict, very close or earnest.
  • Extreme in degree; excessive.
  • Extreme in size or strength.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages.}}
  • Stressful and tiring.
  • Very severe.
  • Anagrams

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