Abound

/əˈbaʊnd/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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.
5. (intransitive) To revel in.
6. To be copiously supplied. [with in or with ‘something’]

Example Sentences

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.

The wilderness abounds in traps.

This pond abounds with fish.

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

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.

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