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
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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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
He clothes him with those amiable qualities which superabound in his own heart, and attributes to him a fidelity which is really far more remarkable on his own side.
From Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various
The more population abounds, the more will subsistence superabound, is his comfortable counter-proposition to Malthusianism.
From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John
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
As to the number of our clergymen, it is large enough at present, there being but few settlements unsupplied with a ministry and some superabound.
From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Martin, Benj. N.
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