Definition of "abound" in English

verb

1. (intransitive) To be full to overflowing; to bristle.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be wealthy.

3. (intransitive) To be highly productive.

4. (intransitive) To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful.

   • Wild animals abound wherever man does not stake his claim.

5. (intransitive) To revel in.

6. To be copiously supplied. [with in or with ‘something’]

   • The wilderness abounds in traps.
   • This pond abounds with fish.
   • 1858-1860, George Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World the wild boar, which abounds both in Azerbijan and in the country about Hamadan