teem
About 0.14 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To be stocked to overflowing.
- verb To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
Fish teem in this pond.
- verb To fall prolifically.
- verb To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
- noun A downpour (of rain).
- verb To empty.
- verb To pour (especially with rain)
- 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
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Word family
teemed teeming teemingly teemingness teemingnesses teems
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