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Abound vs Rife - What's the difference?

abound | rife |

As a verb abound

is to be full to overflowing .

As a proper noun rife is

(region in northern morocco).

abound

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To be full to overflowing.
  • (obsolete) To be wealthy.
  • To be highly productive.
  • To be present or available in large numbers; to be plentiful.
    • Wild animals abound wherever man does not stake his claim.
  • * Where sin abounded' grace did much more '''abound . ''Romans 5:20 .
  • To revel in.
  • To be copiously supplied;
    • The wilderness abounds in traps.
  • * The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. - Chambers.

    • Usage notes

    * (copiously supplied) Abound is followed by in'' or ''with .

    Derived terms

    * abounder * aboundingly * abound in * abound with

    Related terms

    * abundance * abundant

    References

    rife

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Widespread, common (especially of unpleasant or harmful things).
    • Smallpox was rife after the siege had been lifted.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • Before the plague of London, inflammations of the lungs were rife and mortal.
  • * Milton
    • The tumult of loud mirth was rife .
  • * 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 170:
    • The 'denominational considerations' mentioned below relate, of course, to anti-Semitic feeling, which was already rife in Vienna during the last years of the nineteenth century.
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic climbs highest to sink Benfica'' (in ''The Guardian , 15 May 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/15/benfica-chelsea-europa-league]
    • They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high.
  • Abounding; present in large numbers, plentiful.
    • These woodlands are rife with red deer.
  • (obsolete) Having power; active; nimble.
  • * J. Webster
    • What! I am rife a little yet.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Plentifully, abundantly.
    • The snowdrops grow rife on the slopes of Mount Pembroke.

    Anagrams

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