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- DictionaryTeeming/ˈtēmiNG/
adjective
- 1. full of people or things; crowded: "she walked through the teeming streets"
Teeming means completely full, especially with living things. If your grandmother's apartment is teeming with cats, she sure has a lot of them. Any time something (or someplace) is filled with life, it's teeming with it.
IPA guide. Other forms: teeming; teemed; teems. If your neighborhood seems to teem with cats, that means there are a lot of cats running around. When something teems, it swarms or overflows with a large number of things. Don't confuse teem with team.
1. To be full of things; abound or swarm: A drop of water teems with microorganisms. 2. Obsolete To be or become pregnant; bear young. v.tr. Archaic. To give birth to. [Middle English temen, to beget, bear, from Old English tīeman, tēman; see deuk- in Indo-European roots .] teem′er n. teem′ing·ly adv. Synonyms: teem1, abound, overflow, swarm1.
5 days ago · 1. abounding in people, fish, insects, etc. The city's normally teeming streets were virtually deserted. the streets of Cairo, a teeming city of 13 million people. Boys pulled salmon from a teeming river. 2. dense or bustling. They pushed their way through the teeming crowd. Collins English Dictionary.
Teem definition: to abound or swarm; be prolific or fertile (usually followed by with).. See examples of TEEM used in a sentence.
Definition of teeming adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Phrasal verb. teem with something. (Definition of teem from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) teem | Intermediate English. verb [ I ] us / tim / Add to word list Add to word list. to rain heavily: You can’t go out without an umbrella – it’s teeming out there. Phrasal verb.
