Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To be great in number or amount.
- intransitive verb To have something in great numbers or amounts. Often used with in or with: synonym: teem.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be in great plenty; be very prevalent.
- To be unstinted in possession or supply (of anything); be copiously provided or furnished (with anything).
- To teem or be replete (with), as that which is furnished or supplied, or is an intrinsic characteristic: as, the country abounds with wealth, or with fine scenery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful.
- intransitive verb To be copiously supplied; -- followed by
in orwith . - intransitive verb to possess in such abundance as to be characterized by.
- intransitive verb to be filled with; to possess in great numbers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To be highly
productive . - verb intransitive To be
copiously supplied;
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities
- verb be in a state of movement or action
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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'God is able to make _all_ grace abound, that ye may _abound_ in
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Alexander Maclaren 1868
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To know how to abound, i far greater blefling then to abound* Eccl
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Jokes and disdain abound for non-performing lines, and Tube delays play a regular role in the daily hustle.
Hisham Wyne: Public Transport and the Evolution of Urban Culture Hisham Wyne 2010
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Jokes and disdain abound for non-performing lines, and Tube delays play a regular role in the daily hustle.
Hisham Wyne: Public Transport and the Evolution of Urban Culture Hisham Wyne 2010
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Jokes and disdain abound for non-performing lines, and Tube delays play a regular role in the daily hustle.
Hisham Wyne: Public Transport and the Evolution of Urban Culture Hisham Wyne 2010
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Here again examples abound from the United States to China and many countries in between.
Robert Zevin: Been Down So Long ... Robert Zevin 2010
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The only place where "realists" abound is in ivory towers, as I understand it.
Balkinization 2006
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At Famagusta on the south coast, where sunny sandy beaches abound, is the newly erected Grecian Hotel, considered to be very fine.
Cyprus1966! 1966
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Wild his work is assuredly — extravagant sometimes to our wish, and supernatural even to the very limits of poetic belief; but the genius is stamped on every page: feelings such as the muse delights in abound, nay overflow, while a true heroic loftiness of soul, such as influenced devout men of old when they warred for their country, glows and flashes through the whole narrative.
A Review of 'Alroy' 1833
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And calls abound to avoid offending those who kill us.
Archive 2009-03-01 Dr. Sanity 2009
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"I sincerely hope your Christmas in Hertfordshire may abound in the gaieties which that season generally brings, and that your beaux will be so numerous as to prevent your feeling the loss of the three of whom we shall deprive you." - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
August 16, 2015