abound
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 12
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- 6
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Definition of abound
6 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (intransitive)To be full to overflowing; to bristle.
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verb
- (intransitive)To be full to overflowing; to bristle.
- (intransitive, obsolete)To be wealthy.
- (intransitive)To be highly productive.
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(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.”
- (intransitive)To revel in.
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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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