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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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
That grace might superabound where sin had abounded.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
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
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
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
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