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- Dictionaryteeming/ˈtiːmɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. full of people or things; crowded: "she walked through the teeming streets"
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teeming. adjective. uk / ˈtiː.mɪŋ / us / ˈtiː.mɪŋ / Add to word list. If a place is teeming, it is full of people: the teeming metropolis. Synonyms. replete formal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Plenty and abundant. abound in/with something. abundance. abundantly. fruitfulness. galore. generosity. generously. luxuriant. over-lavish.
to become filled to overflowing : abound; to be present in large quantity; to become pregnant : conceive… See the full definition
Teeming definition: abounding or swarming with something, as with people. See examples of TEEMING used in a sentence.
Teeming means completely full, especially with living things. If your grandmother's apartment is teeming with cats, she sure has a lot of them. Any time something (or someplace) is filled with life, it's teeming with it.
1. abounding in people, fish, insects, etc. The city's normally teeming streets were virtually deserted. 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. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
(Definition of teem from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) teem | American Dictionary. verb [ I ] us / tim / Add to word list. to rain heavily: You can’t go out without an umbrella – it’s teeming out there. Phrasal verb.
Definition of teeming adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Define teeming. teeming synonyms, teeming pronunciation, teeming translation, English dictionary definition of teeming. v. teemed , teem·ing , teems v. intr. 1. To be full of things; abound or swarm: A drop of water teems with microorganisms. 2. Obsolete To be or become...
teeming. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English teem‧ing /ˈtiːmɪŋ/ adjective 1 full of people, animals etc that are all moving around the teeming streets of the city 2 British English teeming rain is very heavy rain She walked home through the teeming rain.
teeming. the "teem" family. 35,000 worksheets, games, and lesson plans. If your neighborhood seems to teem with cats, that means there are a lot of cats running around. When something teems, it swarms or overflows with a large number of things.
