superabound
Americanverb (used without object)
-
to abound beyond something else.
-
to be very abundant or too abundant (usually followed by in orwith ).
verb
-
(intr) to abound abnormally; be in surplus
-
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
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
It is possible that nitrates may superabound in the soil from the oxydizement of the nitrogen of a superfluity of ammonia.
From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by Sleeman, William
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
The more population abounds, the more will subsistence superabound, is his comfortable counter-proposition to Malthusianism.
From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John
That grace might superabound where sin had abounded.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
