Abound vs Exist - What's the difference?
abound | exist |
To be full to overflowing.
(obsolete) To be wealthy.
To be highly productive.
To be present or available in large numbers; to be plentiful.
* Where sin abounded' grace did much more '''abound . ''Romans 5:20 .
To revel in.
To be copiously supplied;
* The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. - Chambers.
to be; have existence; have being or reality
* 2012 , The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification , ISBN 978-1-936213-02-3, page 12:
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As verbs the difference between abound and exist
is that abound is to be full to overflowing while exist is to be; have existence; have being or reality.abound
English
Verb
(en verb)- Wild animals abound wherever man does not stake his claim.
- The wilderness abounds in traps.
Usage notes
* (copiously supplied) Abound is followed by in'' or ''with .Derived terms
* abounder * aboundingly * abound in * abound withReferences
exist
English
Verb
(en verb)- Various relationships may exist between character and glyph:
- , regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards.
- , which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding.