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- PrasadLv 77 years ago
1. abounding in people, fish, insects, etc ⇒ "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."
3. pouring in torrents ⇒ "Everywhere was pitch-black in the teeming rain."
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/englis...
http://dictionary.infoplease.com/teeming
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.
See also:
[Teemed] [Teeming] [Team]
[2] : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Teeming \Teem"ing\, a.
Prolific; productive.
Teeming buds and cheerful appear. --Dryden.
- SandyLv 77 years ago
"full of"
"overflowing with"
The garden was teeming with aphids. -- There were a lot of aphids.
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