Usually means: Exist in large numbers, quantities.
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  1. abound: Merriam-Webster
  2. abound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abound: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abound: Vocabulary.com
  6. Abound, abound: Wordnik
  7. abound: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. abound: Wiktionary
  9. abound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abound: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. abound: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Abound: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Abound: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. abound: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. abound: Rhymezone
  16. abound: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. abound: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. abound: FreeDictionary.org
  19. abound: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. abound: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. abound: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. abound: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  23. abound: Infoplease Dictionary
  24. Abound, abound: Dictionary.com
  25. abound: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. abound: Merriam-Webster

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  1. abound: Legal dictionary

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  1. abound: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To be full to overflowing; to bristle.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To be wealthy.
verb:  (intransitive) To be highly productive.
verb:  (intransitive) To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful.
verb:  (intransitive) To revel in.
verb:  To be copiously supplied. [with in or with ‘something’]

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