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What does teeming mean?

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  • Prasad
    Lv 7
    7 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.

  • 7 years ago

    Bustling, being packed with, being alive with.

    "The pond is teeming with fish."

  • Sandy
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    "full of"

    "overflowing with"

    The garden was teeming with aphids. -- There were a lot of aphids.

  • 7 years ago

    It's called google.....

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  • 7 years ago

    overrun

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