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abounding

[uh-bound] Origin

a·bound

[uh-bound]
verb (used without object)
1.
to occur or exist in great quantities or numbers: a stream in which trout abound.
2.
to be rich or well supplied (usually followed by in): The region abounds in coal.
3.
to be filled; teem (usually followed by with): The ship abounds with rats.

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English abounden < Latin abundāre to overflow, equivalent to ab- ab- + undāre to move in waves; see undulate

a·bound·ing·ly, adverb
o·ver·a·bound, verb (used without object)
well-a·bound·ing, adjective
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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Word Origin & History

abound
late 14c., from O.Fr. abunder, from L. abundare "overflow, run over," from L. ab- "off" + undare "rise in a wave," from unda "water, wave" (see water).
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abounding
1630s, prp. adj. from abound; originally "affluent;" sense of "overflowing" is recorded by 1680s.
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