A Topical Dictionary: Search for teem

Dictionary Results For "teem" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Etymology 1

Old English tēman

Pronunciation

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-iːm|-iːm

Verb

To be stocked to overflowing
To be prolific; to abound.

Anagrams

meet
mete

Etymology 2

Old Norse tæma

Verb

empty

fa:teem ko:teem io:teem hu:teem fi:teem te:teem vi:teem

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Teem \Teem\, v. t.
To produce; to bring forth. [R.]
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That [grief] of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker;
Each minute teems a new one. --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Teem \Teem\, v. t. [Icel. t[ae]ma to empty, from t[=o]mr empty;
akin to Dan. t["o]mme to empty, Sw. t["o]mma. See Toom to
empty.]
1. To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Swift.
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2. (Steel Manuf.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to
fill, as a mold, with molten metal.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Teem \Teem\, v. t. [See Tame, a., and cf. Beteem.]
To think fit. [Obs. or R.] --G. Gifford.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Teem \Teem\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Teemed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Teeming.] [OE. temen, AS. t[=e]man, t?man, from te['a]m.
See Team.]
1. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a
plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
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If she must teem,
Create her child of spleen. --Shak.
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2. To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to
overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.
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His mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to
cover former villainy. --Sir W.
Scott.
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The young, brimful of the hopes and feeling which
teem in our time. --F. Harrison.
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WordNet teem
v 1: be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees";
"The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her
mind pullulated with worries" [syn: pullulate, swarm]
2: move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the
theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: pour,
swarm, stream, pullulate]

Moby Dictionary
abound , abound with , be alive with , be fruitful , be productive ,
beget , bespread , bristle , bristle with , burst with , bustle ,
clutter , cram , crawl , crawl with , creep with , crowd , diffuse ,
drench , engender , extend throughout , exuberate , fill , flood , flow ,
fructify , gush , honeycomb , imbue , jam , know no bounds , lash ,
leave no void , leaven , luxuriate , multiply , occupy , overabound ,
overbrim , overflow , overflow with , overgrow , overrun , overspill ,
overspread , overswarm , pack , penetrate , permeate , pervade , pour ,
proliferate , pullulate , pullulate with , rain , reproduce , run over ,
run riot , run through , shower , spill over , stream , suffuse ,
superabound , swarm , swarm with , teem with , throng with ,
transfuse