You searched for:
“abound”
abound (uh BOUND) (verb), abounds; abounded; abounding
1. Everyone can see that his garden is abounding (teeming, flourishing) with roses.
2. Existing in great quantities or numbers; to be prevalent: "The English language abounds (overflows, flourishes) in exact, vigorous, and colorful words to express all shades of meanings." 3. Etymology: rom Latin abundare, "to overflow" from ab-, "from" + undare, "to flow"; from unda, "a wave".
2. Existing in great quantities or numbers; to be prevalent: "The English language abounds (overflows, flourishes) in exact, vigorous, and colorful words to express all shades of meanings." 3. Etymology: rom Latin abundare, "to overflow" from ab-, "from" + undare, "to flow"; from unda, "a wave".
This entry is located in the following unit:
English Words in Action, Group A +
(page 3)
(Old English: flowan, to flow, to stream, to issue; to become liquid, to melt; to abound, to overflow)
Word Entries containing the term:
“abound”
abound in/with (verb phrase) (something), abounds in/with; abounded in/with; abounding in/with
To be filled with something or to contain a very large amount of something: "They live in an area which abounds with oil."
They were fishing in a stream that abounded in fish."
This entry is located in the following unit:
English Words in Action, Group A +
(page 3)
Word Entries at Word Info:
“abound”
abound
1. To be abundant, or plentiful; to exist in large quantities.
2. To be present in large numbers, or to contain something in large numbers or amounts.
3. To be rich or well supplied: "The area abounds in trees."
2. To be present in large numbers, or to contain something in large numbers or amounts.
3. To be rich or well supplied: "The area abounds in trees."
This entry is located in the following unit:
undu-, und- +
(page 1)