abound
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- First attested around 1325.
- From Middle English abounden, abounde, from Old French abonder, abunder, from Latin abundāre, present active infinitive of abundō (“overflow”), which comes from ab (“from, down from”) + undō (“surge, swell, rise in waves, move in waves”), from unda (“wave”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbaʊnd/
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈbaʊnd/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -aʊnd
Verb
[edit]abound (third-person singular simple present abounds, present participle abounding, simple past and past participle abounded)
- (intransitive) To be full to overflowing; to bristle. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).][1]
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be wealthy. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 18th century.][1]
- (intransitive) To be highly productive.
- (intransitive) To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).][1]
- Wild animals abound wherever man does not stake his claim.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 5:20:
- Moreouer, the Lawe entred, that the offence might abound: but where sinne abounded, grace did much more abound.
- 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766:
- 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 [...].
- (intransitive) To revel in. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 18th century.][1]
- To be copiously supplied. [with in or with ‘something’]
- The wilderness abounds in traps.
- This pond abounds with fish.
- 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:
- 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
Usage notes
[edit]- This is generally a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to be full to overflowing
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to be highly productive
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to be plentiful
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to be copiously supplied with
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abound”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.
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