abound
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abound
- /əˈbaʊnd/ UK
- /əˈbaʊnd/ US
Rhymes with -aʊnd
Where it comes from
* 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”).
verb abounds · abounding · abounded
- To be full to overflowing; to bristle.
- To be wealthy.
- To be highly productive.
- To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful. Wild animals abound wherever man does not stake his claim.
- To revel in.
- To be copiously supplied. The wilderness abounds in traps.
