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Answer for the clue "Giving in abundance ", 9 letters:
lavishing

Word definitions for lavishing in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lavish \Lav"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lavished (-[i^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Lavishing .] To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of lavish English)

Usage examples of lavishing.

The untimely death of Isabel, whom he had loved with that love which is the vent of hoarded and passionate musings long nourished upon romance, and lavishing the wealth of a soul that overflows with secreted tenderness upon the first object that can bring reality to fiction,--that event had not only darkened melancholy into gloom, but had made loneliness still more dear to his habits by all the ties of memory and all the consecrations of regret.

Saddam has tried to win their support by lavishing on them higher pay and all manner of privileges.