superabound
Americanverb (used without object)
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to abound beyond something else.
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to be very abundant or too abundant (usually followed by in orwith ).
verb
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(intr) to abound abnormally; be in surplus
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rare to be more abundant than (something else)
Other Word Forms
- superabundance noun
- superabundant adjective
Etymology
Origin of superabound
1400–50; late Middle English superabounden < Late Latin superabundāre, equivalent to super- super- + abundāre to abound
Example Sentences
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Assuredly it was a fortunate chance that took this lover of sunlight and space and splendor, in his most receptive years, to regions where they superabound.
From Poems by Seeger, Alan
Could I but work that force as an ideal I felt it must see me through, for the beauty of it in that form was that it should absolutely superabound.
From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry
Therefore spodizators, gesinins, memains, and parazons, be not culpable of dilatory protractions in the apposition of every re-roborating species, but rather let them pullulate and superabound on the tables.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
Fill our hearts with joy and gladness, that ever having of all things a sufficiency, we may superabound in all good works, in Christ Jesus our Lord, &c.'''
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
The more population abounds, the more will subsistence superabound, is his comfortable counter-proposition to Malthusianism.
From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John
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