Meaning

To be stocked to overflowing..

Definitions by Sense

1. To be stocked to overflowing.
2. To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
3. (of rain, snow, etc) To fall prolifically.
4. (obsolete) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
5. A downpour (of rain).
6. (archaic) To empty.
7. To pour (especially with rain)
8. To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.

Example Sentences

But well he knew his teeming pangs were vain, Till Midwife Dryden eas’d his labouring Brain;

his mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy

Fish teem in this pond.

The steel works, with their Siemens furnaces, the rail-rolling mill with its enormous single-cylinder engine fitted with Corliss valve gear, and the forge in which were installed the great steam hammers and hydraulic presses—these were teeming with interest, and the best way to pick up information was to work with the millwrights.

Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.

"Troth, it's teemin' powerful this instiant up there in the mountains. 'Twill be much if you land home afore it's atop of you; […]"

... rain teemed from the overcast skies, cold and penetrating, and life began to look like one enormous funeral procession.

The snow teemed like white bugs against Mark's windshield for the entire long, silent, thirty-five-mile drive out to her new-rich fantasy- "The Farm" that she shared with my stepfather, Bill : […]

Word Forms

• teems
• teeming
• teemed

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