abound

present singular third person abounds · participle present abounding · participle past abounded · past abounded

1. intransitiveTo be full to overflowing; to bristle.First known use First attested from around (1350 to 1470).
2. intransitiveobsoleteTo be wealthy.First known use Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 18ᵗʰ century.
3. intransitiveTo be highly productive.
4. intransitiveTo be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful.First known use First attested from around (1350 to 1470).

   Wild animals abound wherever man does not stake his claim.

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   Moreouer, the Lawe entred, that the offence might abound: but where sinne abounded, grace did much more abound.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 5:20

   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 [...].

   1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766

   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.

   2000 September 7, Henry Gee, “Eating people - is it bad taste?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 May 2014

5. intransitiveTo revel in.First known use Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 18ᵗʰ century.
6. To be copiously supplied.

   This pond abounds with fish.

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   The wilderness abounds in traps.

   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.

   1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Further Account of Glubbdubdrib. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 108

   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