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superabound

[ soo-per-uh-bound ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to abound beyond something else.
  2. to be very abundant or too abundant (usually followed by in or with ).


superabound

/ ˌsuːpərəˈbaʊnd; ˌsuːpərəˈbʌndəns /

verb

  1. intr to abound abnormally; be in surplus
  2. rare.
    to be more abundant than (something else)


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Derived Forms

  • ˌsuperaˈbundant, adjective
  • superabundance, noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of superabound1

1400–50; late Middle English superabounden < Late Latin superabundāre, equivalent to super- super- + abundāre to abound

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Example Sentences

They lavish on their masters, with the best grace in the world, the nutritious juices with which their bodies superabound.

The more population abounds, the more will subsistence superabound, is his comfortable counter-proposition to Malthusianism.

It is possible that nitrates may superabound in the soil from the oxydizement of the nitrogen of a superfluity of ammonia.

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