abound

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/əˈbaʊnd/
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/əˈbaʊnd/ · /əˈbaʊnd/(US)

Definition of abound

6 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)To be full to overflowing; to bristle.
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verb

  1. (intransitive)To be full to overflowing; to bristle.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete)To be wealthy.
  3. (intransitive)To be highly productive.
  4. (intransitive)To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful.
    “Wild animals abound wherever man does not stake his claim.”
    “Moreouer, the Lawe entred, that the offence might abound: but where sinne abounded, grace did much more abound.”
    “One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...].”
    “Evidence for cannibalism abounds - even if circumstantial - both from the modern world and throughout history, but academic anthropology has found itself in a funk of denial.”
  5. (intransitive)To revel in.
  6. To be copiously supplied.
    “The wilderness abounds in traps.”
    “This pond abounds with fish.”
    “I could plainly diſcover from whence one Family derives a long Chin; why a ſecond hath abounded with Knaves for two Generations, and Fools for two more; why a third happened to be crack-brained, and a fourth to be Sharpers.”
    “1858-1860, George Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World the wild boar, which abounds both in Azerbijan and in the country about Hamadan”

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Etymology

* First attested around 1325. * From Middle English abounden, abounde, from Old French abonder, abunder, from Latin abundāre (“overflow”), which comes from ab (“from, down from”) + undō (“surge, swell, rise in waves, move in waves”), from unda (“wave”).

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