ABOUND IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abound in mean? 

• ABOUND IN (verb)
  The verb ABOUND IN has 1 sense:

1. exist in large quantity

  Familiarity information: ABOUND IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABOUND IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exist in large quantity

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

abound in; pullulate with; teem in

Hypernyms (to "abound in" is one way to...):

occur (to be found to exist)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

My father had fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When it's fine, and we go out for a walk in the evening, the streets abound in enjoyment for us.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It put me to the pains of many circumlocutions, to give my master a right idea of what I spoke; for their language does not abound in variety of words, because their wants and passions are fewer than among us.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I sincerely hope your Christmas in Hertfordshire may abound in the gaieties which that season generally brings, and that your beaux will be so numerous as to prevent your feeling the loss of the three of whom we shall deprive you.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Because blue and green clays abound in nature, the discovery of how their antibacterial action works should lead to alternative ways of treating persistent infections and diseases that are difficult to treat with antibiotics.

(Scientists discover how blue and green clays kill bacteria, NSF)

I only hope, said my aunt, shaking her head, that her husband is one of those Poker husbands who abound in the newspapers, and will beat her well with one.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He said, “they commonly acted like mortals till about thirty years old; after which, by degrees, they grew melancholy and dejected, increasing in both till they came to fourscore. This he learned from their own confession: for otherwise, there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they were too few to form a general observation by. When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying. They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren. Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort and the deaths of the old. By reflecting on the former, they find themselves cut off from all possibility of pleasure; and whenever they see a funeral, they lament and repine that others have gone to a harbour of rest to which they themselves never can hope to arrive. They have no remembrance of anything but what they learned and observed in their youth and middle-age, and even that is very imperfect; and for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition, than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories; these meet with more pity and assistance, because they want many bad qualities which abound in others.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

For, if the town intended to be destroyed should have in it any tall rocks, as it generally falls out in the larger cities, a situation probably chosen at first with a view to prevent such a catastrophe; or if it abound in high spires, or pillars of stone, a sudden fall might endanger the bottom or under surface of the island, which, although it consist, as I have said, of one entire adamant, two hundred yards thick, might happen to crack by too great a shock, or burst by approaching too near the fires from the houses below, as the backs, both of iron and stone, will often do in our chimneys.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The wise and virtuous Houyhnhnms, who abound in all excellences that can adorn a rational creature, have no name for this vice in their language, which has no terms to express any thing that is evil, except those whereby they describe the detestable qualities of their Yahoos, among which they were not able to distinguish this of pride, for want of thoroughly understanding human nature, as it shows itself in other countries where that animal presides.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)