TEEM

pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate

(verb) move in large numbers; “people were pouring out of the theater”; “beggars pullulated in the plaza”

teem, pullulate, swarm

(verb) be teeming, be abuzz; “The garden was swarming with bees”; “The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen”; “her mind pullulated with worries”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Verb

teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)

To be stocked to overflowing.

To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.

(obsolete) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.

Etymology 2

Verb

teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)

(archaic) To empty.

To pour (especially with rain)

To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.

Etymology 3

Verb

teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)

(obsolete, rare) To think fit.

Anagrams

• Teme, etem, meet, mete, teme

Source: Wiktionary


Teem, v. t. Etym: [Icel. tæma to empty, from tomr empty; akin to Dan. tömme to empty, Sw. tömma. See Toom to empty.]

1. To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Swift.

2. (Steel Manuf.)

Definition: To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.

Teem, v. t. Etym: [See Tame, a., and cf. Beteem.]

Definition: To think fit. [Obs. or R.] G. Gifford.

Teem, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Teemed; p. pr. & vb. n. Teeming.] Etym: [OE. temen, AS. teman, t, from teám. See Team.]

1. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. If she must teem, Create her child of spleen. Shak.

2. To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound. His mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy. Sir W. Scott. The young, brimful of the hopes and feeling which teem in our time. F. Harrison.

Teem, v. t.

Definition: To produce; to bring forth. [R.] That [grief] of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker; Each minute teems a new one. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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