Word of the Day:
abound
What It Means
To be full to overflowing; to bristle.
To be wealthy.
To be highly productive.
Wild animals abound wherever man does not stake his claim.
Abound in Context
“Moreouer, the Lawe entred, that the offence might abound: but where sinne abounded, grace did much more abound.”
Did You Know?
* 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”).
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