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 Englishabounden < Latinabundāre to overflow, equivalent to ab-ab- + undāre to move in waves; see undulate
Related forms
aboundingly, adverb
overabound, verb (used without object)
well-abounding, adjective
Examples from the web for abounding
Cheap and fertile land, abounding game, and plentiful water lured settlers to the area at a steady pace.
If the kids are hearing what that guy was spouting, it's a wonder there isn't even more hatred abounding.
With abounding enthusiasm, they incorporated themselves into our family.
And it is immaculately constructed, abounding in complex twists, turns and counterturns.
Spring colors are abounding and on the runway they're brighter than ever.
From end to end it gives proof of an abounding life, a quenchless energy.
They were pedants but also courtiers abounding in compliments to royal and noble patrons and friends and fellow poets.
But she nevertheless made no scruple of abounding in her cousin's sense, and pretending to sigh for the charms of her native land.
Yet even in such places antelope will be found, as alert and as abounding with vivacious life as elsewhere.
The refuge has a wide variety of habitats from uplands to wetlands with abounding bird and other wildlife populations.
British Dictionary definitions for abounding
abound
/əˈbaʊnd/
verb (intransitive)
1.
to exist or occur in abundance; be plentiful: a swamp in which snakes abound
2.
foll by with or in. to be plentifully supplied (with); teem (with): the gardens abound with flowers, the fields abound in corn
Word Origin
C14: via Old French from Latin abundāre to overflow, from undāre to flow, from unda wave
Word Origin and History for abounding
adj.
1630s, present participle adjective from abound; originally "affluent;" sense of "overflowing" is recorded by 1680s.
abound
v.
early 14c., from Old French abonder "to abound, be abundant, come together in great numbers" (12c.), from Latin abundare "overflow, run over," from Latin ab- "off" (see ab-) + undare "rise in a wave," from unda "water, wave" (see water (n.)). Related: Abounded; abounding.