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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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
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
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
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
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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