Word.ws English Dictionary

overabounding

overabounding is the present participle and gerund of overabound.

Meaning of overabound

Verb

overabound (third-person singular simple present overabounds, present participle overabounding, simple past and past participle overabounded)

  1. (intransitive) To be too abundant or plentiful.
    • March 7, 1709, Alexander Pope, letter to H. Cromwell
      never overabounding in transitory coin

Questions about overabounding

What is overabounding the present participle and gerund of?
Overabounding is the present participle and gerund of overabound.

Words near overabounding in the dictionary

  1. over/under
  2. over/unders
  3. overabduction
  4. overabound
  5. overabounded
  6. overabounding
  7. overabounds
  8. overabsorb
  9. overabsorbed
  10. overabsorbing
  11. overabsorbs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: overabounding (page history and authors); overabound (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “overabounding.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/overabounding. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.