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)
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Etymology
Origin of superabound
1400–50; late Middle English superabounden < Late Latin superabundāre, equivalent to super- super- + abundāre to abound
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Portraits still superabound, and finely painted portraits too; but, strange to say, there are fewer female portraits in the present than in any recent exhibition.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 371, May 23, 1829 by Various
The more population abounds, the more will subsistence superabound, is his comfortable counter-proposition to Malthusianism.
From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae
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
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 Alan Seeger
That grace might superabound where sin had abounded.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
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