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teemteem /tiːm/ verb teemOrigin: Old English timan, tæman VERB TABLEteem |
Present | I, you, we, they | teem | | he, she, it | teems | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | teemed | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have teemed | | he, she, it | has teemed | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had teemed | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will teem | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have teemed |
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Present | I | am teeming | | he, she, it | is teeming | | you, we, they | are teeming | Past | I, he, she, it | was teeming | | you, we, they | were teeming | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been teeming | | he, she, it | has been teeming | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been teeming | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be teeming | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been teeming |
- Central Park teems with bandits, as you may have heard, but they each work with just one arm.
- Its fields are fertile, its vineyards productive and its forests teem with wild life.
- The daily papers teemed with the dreary records of secession...
- The religious press in the first decade of pentecostal history teems with blistering attacks on the new movement.
- With luck, in a year the place should begin to teem with federal workers.
NOUN► life· Its fields are fertile, its vineyards productive and its forests teem with wild life.· Perhaps, after all, this is indeed some exotic coastline-maybe some coral reef, teeming with life of all kinds.· It teems with life, abounds with colour and characters.· The vast panorama of teeming Life and Creation opened up to us through the teachings of Esotericism beggars human thought.· Towns with names like Connacht, Munster, Rosedale and Hanratty that teem with cramped lives and desperate people. teem down phrasal verb British English to rain very heavily SYN pour: It’s been teeming down all day.teem with somebody/something phrasal verb1to be very full of people or animals, all moving about: The island was teeming with tourists.2British English if it is teeming with rain, it is raining very heavily SYN pour |