Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To be full of things; abound or swarm.
- intransitive verb Obsolete To be or become pregnant; bear young.
- intransitive verb To give birth to.
- intransitive verb To rain hard or heavily; pour.
- intransitive verb To pour out or empty.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To produce; bring forth; bear.
- To bring; lead; take; reflexively, to betake one's self; appeal.
- To be or become pregnant; engender young; conceive; bear; produce.
- To be full as if ready to bring forth; be stocked to overflowing; be prolific or abundantly fertile.
- To be fit for; be becoming or appropriate to; befit.
- To think fit.
- To pour; empty; toom; specifically, to pour in the casting of crucible steel.
- To pour; come down in torrents: as, it not only rains, it teems.
- An old spelling of
team .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Obs. or R. To think fit.
- transitive verb Obs. or Prov. Eng. To pour; -- commonly followed by
out . - transitive verb (Steel Manuf.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.
- transitive verb rare To produce; to bring forth.
- intransitive verb To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
- intransitive verb To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To be stocked to
overflowing - verb To be
prolific ; toabound . - verb archaic To
empty . - verb To
pour (especially with rain)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb move in large numbers
- verb be teeming, be abuzz
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The streets around the Jardin teem with restaurants and artisan shops.
Treasure of the Sierra Madre -- wintering in San Miguel de Allende 2008
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The streets around the Jardin teem with restaurants and artisan shops.
Treasure of the Sierra Madre -- wintering in San Miguel de Allende 2008
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The words of Father John A. Conway, S.J. (in the preface to Fr. von Hammerstein's work, "Edgar, or from Atheism to the Full Truth") may well be quoted in this connection: "Who can read the words that teem from the German
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Satyam you brought up Shakespeare; let me add Joyce: much as I love Ulysses and Leopold Bloom, the novel does not "teem".
NAACHGAANA 2009
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Even the likes of Ghajini do not "teem" the way a really high-quality masala movie would; and the likes of Bhansali provoke death-by-stupefaction at the juxtaposition of the cavernous interiors and mere handful of characters.
NAACHGAANA 2009
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Immaculate and often monochrome, his paintings teem with an all but inscrutable iconography of personal history.
Nicole Garton: Ingenue Interview: Ugo Nonis Nicole Garton 2011
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Immaculate and often monochrome, his paintings teem with an all but inscrutable iconography of personal history.
Nicole Garton: Ingenue Interview: Ugo Nonis Nicole Garton 2011
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Immaculate and often monochrome, his paintings teem with an all but inscrutable iconography of personal history.
Nicole Garton: Ingenue Interview: Ugo Nonis Nicole Garton 2011
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Immaculate and often monochrome, his paintings teem with an all but inscrutable iconography of personal history.
Nicole Garton: Ingenue Interview: Ugo Nonis Nicole Garton 2011
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Immaculate and often monochrome, his paintings teem with an all but inscrutable iconography of personal history.
Nicole Garton: Ingenue Interview: Ugo Nonis Nicole Garton 2011
oroboros commented on the word teem
Meet in reverse.
July 22, 2007
fbharjo commented on the word teem
prolific or fit or empty
February 8, 2013