English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van "oorvloedig" is om in groot hoeveelhede of getalle te bestaan of voorkom; om volop of oorvloedig te wees. Dit kan ook beteken om vol of oorvol te wees, of om ryk te wees of goed voorsien van iets.

Sentence Examples

  1. The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories these meet with more pity and assistance, because they want many bad qualities which abound in others.
  2. Their verses abound very much in both of these, and usually contain either some exalted notions of friendship and benevolence, or the praises of those who were victors in races and other bodily exercises.
  3. Sam says rumors abound the CIA is planning a covert action against UBL in retaliation for the USS Cole.
  4. From The Mists of Time, the Great kingdom Rose With The Best Men to Fight, To Vanquish Our Foes The Most Beautiful Queens, We Never Will Fall With The Bravest Of Kings, Who Always Stand Tall With Legends Abound, We Will Always Endure And Never Will Fall, Our Great kingdom Thure Towards the end of the song a new group of people were coming into the room, marching three across to the tune.
  5. The wise and virtuous Houyhnhnms, who abound in all the excellencies that can adorn a rational creature, have no name for this vice in their language which has no terms to express anything that is evil, except those whereby they describe the detestable qualities of their yahoos among which they were not able to distinguish this of pride for want of thoroughly understanding human nature, as it shows itself in other countries where that animal presides.
  6. But the large rivers are full of vessels, and abound with excellent fish for they seldom get any from the sea, because the sea fish are of the same size with those in Europe, and consequently not worth catching whereby it is manifest, that nature, in the production of plants and animals of so extraordinary a bulk, is wholly confined to this continent, of which I leave the reasons to be determined by philosophers.
  7. But as those countries which I have described, do not appear to have any desire of being conquered and enslaved, murdered or driven out, by colonies nor abound either in gold, silver, sugar, or tobacco I did humbly conceive, they were by no means proper objects of our zeal, our valor or our interest.
  8. Neither Asiatics nor Africans abound in Paris but, without denying the inference, I will now merely call your attention to three points.
  9. My master farther assured me, which I also observed myself, that in the fields where these shining stones abound, the fiercest and most frequent battles are fought, occasioned by perpetual inroads of the neighboring yahoos.
  10. It put me to the pains of many circumlocutions, to give my master a right idea of what I spoke for their language does not abound in variety of words, because their wants and passions are fewer than among us.