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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The law came not to be a mean of life and righteousness unto them, but that the offence might abound, that so grace might superabound.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
The more population abounds, the more will subsistence superabound, is his comfortable counter-proposition to Malthusianism.
From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John
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.
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
Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed, and, to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound.
From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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