verb
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To enrich.
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To become rich.
adjective
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Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
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Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.
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a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry
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Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
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a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop
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Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.
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rich soil or land; a rich mine
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Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.
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a rich endowment; a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents
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Not faint or delicate; vivid.
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a rich red colour
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Very amusing.
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The scene was a rich one.
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Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous.
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Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
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Of a fuel-air mixture, having less air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
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Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
Examples of rich in a Sentence
The rich have always had this luxury.
If I had, I'd be a rich man, wouldn't I?
He and his wife, who's as nutty as Planters, aren't on anyone's top one hundred list of the rich and famous.
She froze at the cultured voice with its rich accent, knowing the woman at the nearest table spoke about her.
I know this must be a shock and I'm sorry but you can be a very rich woman.
When the rich believe the poor will not honor property rights.
So whether you are rich or poor in the future, you will own this pan and get this benefit.
His rich drawl betrayed no more emotion than his words.
It is rich enough.
The table and chairs were made of a dark rich wood, and the tiles on the floor looked like polished bricks.
Still, the rich hardwood floor reflected the weak morning sun in a cheerful manner that spawned reluctance to continue the tour.
The ground around the monument was rich with the long dead whose souls were trapped.
Finally, when the poor see their income shrink while the income of the rich rises, they will buy into the system less.
If the poor remove rich people's incentives to produce economic gain, the rich, who behave somewhat rationally, will stop producing.
The maroon tapestry mirrored highlights in the rich hardwood floor.
Not that I'm rich, at least not by most standards, but I was the only heir to grandmother Radisson and a great-aunt.
Fred's freebie hookup was the only show in town, in the mind of the rich old cheapskate.
She forced herself to notice how dark the sky was, the rich scent of earth in the air, the tickle of the pine needles that brushed her skin.
She wore a rich tanzanite blue-purple that was darker than the colors worn by the people of this planet.
All the comforts of home, except behind the rich brocade fabric walls stood twenty-four inches of rebar reinforced concrete and the door consisted of eight-inch diameter solid steel bars.
How rich he was!
This Josh would send reports to my father of just how rich the mine was.
When the people heard about this speech of the rich man, Coriolanus, they were very angry.
Jackson was speaking with some rich blowhard when he noticed Elisabeth make her way to Connor and Sarah.
So the poor will get richer, and the rich will get vastly richer.
But the rich man--not to make any invidious comparison--is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.
Her father is very rich and stingy.
Whether you are rich or poor, live in the developed world or the developing world, life today is better and easier than it was a century ago by virtually any measure.
The whole neighborhood is rich in prehistoric remains.
I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
I hear they will marry him to that rich girl.
The parish of Mortlach, in which Dufftown is situated, is rich in archaeological and historical associations.
A fixed fine, for example, operates very unequally on rich and poor.
The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor.
He is so rich, and we are so poor!
After fourteen years' residence in Bengal Hastings did not return home a rich man, estimated by the opportunities of his position.
Chait Sing, raja of Benares, the greatest of the vassal chiefs who had grown rich under the protection of the British rule, lay under the suspicion of disloyalty.
This part of the river's course, the ancient Assyria, is also a rich agricultural region.
The first eruptions piled up huge domes of lavas rich in soda, including the geburite-dacites and sOlvsbergites of Mount Macedon in Victoria, and the kenyte and tephrite domes of Dunedin, in New Zealand.
In the north also the 13th century was rich in municipal charters.
The city is a trade centre for a rich farming district, has car-shops (of the Pere Marquette railway) and iron foundries, and manufactures wagons, pottery, furniture and clothing.
If the poor were ardent nationalists who would not intermingle with the Greeks, the rich had long outgrown and now could humour such prejudices; and the title of their party was capable of recalling at any rate the sound of the national ideal of righteousness, i.e.
To Princess Mary it was strange that now, at a moment when such sorrow was filling her soul, there could be rich people and poor, and the rich could refrain from helping the poor.
More than anything else in Pierre's story the captain was impressed by the fact that Pierre was very rich, had two mansions in Moscow, and that he had abandoned everything and not left the city, but remained there concealing his name and station.
Xander's honeyed growl was low and rich.
The family had been recently ennobled and was not rich.
Giovanni, dating from 1576, is famous for its rich inlaid marbles, its Brussels tapestries, its roof painted by Matteo Preti (1661-1699), the picture by Michael Angelo da Caravaggio of the beheading of John the Baptist, numerous memorials of the knights and other relics.
Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian beds have been recognized, the Upper Cambrian consisting of a limestone which is very rich in metalliferous ores (especially galena and calamine).
He organized the national guard, applied the civil constitution of the clergy, and regulated the finances of the city so as to tax the rich heavily and spare the poor.
Tipperary, Ireland, finely situated in a rich though hilly country near the river Nenagh, 962 m.