EGAVE

teem

About 0.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To be stocked to overflowing.
  2. verb To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
    Fish teem in this pond.
  3. verb To fall prolifically.
  4. verb To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
  5. noun A downpour (of rain).
  6. verb To empty.
  7. verb To pour (especially with rain)
  8. verb To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.

Similar words

swarm pullulate abound overflow pour team overteem burst at the seams bustle overstock

Often followed by

with in to and on of the

Word family

teemed teeming teemingly teemingness teemingnesses teems

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