Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pregnant; prolific; fruitful; abundant; overflowing.
- noun The bringing forth of young.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Prolific; productive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
teem . - verb Abundantly filled with especially living things.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective abundantly filled with especially living things
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Examples
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The dominant available images prescribe a particularly parochial set of options: a barricaded and insulated rejectionist leadership; pitiful masses suffering in teeming refugee camps or squalid, quarantined communities; and, most prominent of all, terrorist suicide bombers, fanatical malevolent creatures, bereft of normal human motivation and well beyond our comprehension.
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The dominant available images prescribe a particularly parochial set of options: a barricaded and insulated rejectionist leadership; pitiful masses suffering in teeming refugee camps or squalid, quarantined communities; and, most prominent of all, terrorist suicide bombers, fanatical malevolent creatures, bereft of normal human motivation and well beyond our comprehension.
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Millions of people are imprisoned in teeming cities; millions more labour on Pharaonic projects to rebuild ruined ecosystems.
Sci-Fi Book Releases for October (UK) Mark 2008
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The British and the Dutch, close-quartered in teeming European cities, may have seen sailing ships and canoes as instruments of commerce.
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In Brazil and other countries democracy faces a backlash from millions of badly educated and newly urbanized dwellers in teeming slums, who see few palpable benefits to Western parliamentary systems.
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In Brazil and other countries democracy faces a backlash from millions of badly educated and newly urbanized dwellers in teeming slums, who see few palpable benefits to Western parliamentary systems.
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In Brazil and other countries democracy faces a backlash from millions of badly educated and newly urbanized dwellers in teeming slums, who see few palpable benefits to Western parliamentary systems.
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It was what we frequently call a teeming brain, one of those four-horse teeming brains, as it were.
Remarks Bill Nye 1873
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After a day in Antananarivo -- a sprawling, diesel-soaked city that earns the adjective "teeming" -- we leave by car for Andasibe, a former logging village that is now home to a burgeoning ecotourism trade.
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At 97, he can still recall the teeming shore that was the Antwerp waterfront as he experienced it in 1922.
First Stop on the Journey to Ellis Island Mark Lamster 2010
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