abound

Etymology

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

verb

1. (intransitive) To be full to overflowing.
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.
   One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors …. 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766
5. (intransitive) To revel in.
6. (intransitive) To be copiously supplied
   The wilderness abounds in traps.
   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