abound
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Is abound a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To be full to overflowing; to bristle.intransitive
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be wealthy.intransitiveobsolete
3. (intransitive) To be highly productive.intransitive
4. (intransitive) To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful.Examples: "Wild animals abound wherever man does not stake his claim."; "Moreouer, the Lawe entred, that the offence might abound: but where sinne abounded, grace did much more abound."; "One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...]."intransitive
5. (intransitive) To revel in.intransitive
6. To be copiously supplied. [with in or with ‘something’]Examples: "The wilderness abounds in traps."; "This pond abounds with fish."; "I could plainly diſcover from whence one Family derives a long Chin; why a ſecond hath abounded with Knaves for two Generations, and Fools for two more; why a third happened to be crack-brained, and a fourth to be Sharpers."
Definition source: Wiktionary