abound

verb

Etymology: * First attested around 1325. * From Middle English abounden, abounde, from Old French abonder, abunder, from Latin abundāre (“overflow”), which comes from ab (“from, down from”) + undō (“surge, swell, rise in waves, move in waves”), from unda (“wave”).

1. To be full to overflowing; to bristle.
2. To be wealthy.
3. To be highly productive.
4. To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful.

   “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.”

5. To revel in.
6. To be copiously supplied.

   “The wilderness abounds in traps.”

   “This pond abounds with fish.”