abound

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(reha) abound, are more unmanageable than those in which nitrates abound: they tell me that, with flooding, irrigating, manuring, and well ploughing, they can manage to get crops from all but the soils in which this _reha_ abounds.

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  1. intransitive verb To be great in number or amount.
  2. intransitive verb To be fully supplied or filled; teem. See Synonyms at teem1.

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  • Sorrows abound--infallible, evident sorrows; consolations, or rather the reasons wherefore we accept with some gladness the duty of life, are rare and uncertain, and hard of detection. —  The Buried Temple
  • Smaller objects abound--coins, pottery, window and bottle and cup glass, bronze ornaments, iron tools, &c.--and; many belong to the beginnings of Calleva, but few pieces are individually notable. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • Marvellous stories abound, and the most whimsical theories are advanced to account for the working of Nature. —  Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study
  • East of the Caspian Sea they abound, and towards the centre of Asia as far as records of exploration and travel present reliable accounts of the country. —  Irish Wonders
  • Why should you abound, and another be forced to beg, unless it is intended thereby that you should merit by your generosity, and he by his patience? —  Mediaeval Socialism
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  1. Middle English abounden, from Old French abonder, from Latin abundāre, to overflow : ab-, away; see ab-1 + undāre, to flow (from unda, wave; see wed-1 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Middle English abounden, abunden, sometimes spelled habunden, from Old French abonder, habonder, French abonder = Spanish Portuguese abundar = Italian abbondare, from Latin abundare, overflow, from ab, from, away, + undare, rise in waves, overflow, from unda, a wave: see undulate. Cf. redound, surround.
 

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