abound
verb [intransitive] (formal)Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they abound | |
| he / she / it abounds | |
| past simple abounded | |
| past participle abounded | |
| -ing form abounding |
to exist in great numbers or quantities 大量存在；有许多 Oxford Collocations DictionaryAbound is used with these nouns as the subject:- rumour
- story
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘overflow, be abundant’): from Old French abunder, from Latin abundare ‘overflow’, from ab- ‘from’ + undare ‘surge’ (from unda ‘a wave’).