What is the difference between overflowing and abound?
overflowing | abound |
overflow
* 1829 , Josiah Conder, The Modern Traveler (page 205)
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.
As verbs the difference between overflowing and abound
is that overflowing is (overflow) while abound is {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} to be full to overflowing {{defdate|first attested from around (1350 to 1470)}}{{reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =brown, lesley | others = | title = the shorter oxford english dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =oxford university press | location =oxford, uk | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =7| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =}}.As a noun overflowing
is overflow.overflowing
English
Noun
(en noun)- the great overflowings and recedings of the waters
Verb
(head)abound
English
Verb
(en verb)- Wild animals abound wherever man does not stake his claim.
- The wilderness abounds in traps.
