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Grammar : Adj
Spell : tee-ming
Phonetic Transcription : ˈti mɪŋ



Definition of teeming

Origin :
  • "swarming," 1715, present participle adjective from teem (v.1).
  • adj abundant, full
Example sentences :
  • For me she was only an incident in this teeming radiant life.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • They are all gone now, but then they were humming and teeming with work.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • She was aware for the first time of the teeming horrors of life.
  • Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
  • Jeter and Eyer both understood the thoughts which were teeming in Kress' brain.
  • Extract from : « Lords of the Stratosphere » by Arthur J. Burks
  • Town or country, it's all the same—the air chokes me, it's teeming with moral bacilli.
  • Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
  • Before him lay the great city of which he had so often heard, teeming with life and activity.
  • Extract from : « Paul Prescott's Charge » by Horatio Alger
  • The small park in the center of the garrison was teeming with life.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy » by Florence Partello Stuart
  • The streams behind Lecour's post were teeming with beaver-dams.
  • Extract from : « The False Chevalier » by William Douw Lighthall
  • Our people are but a remnant, a feeble fraction of the teeming millions that own my sway.
  • Extract from : « Alroy » by Benjamin Disraeli
  • The teeming life that goes on down in the long grass is exterminated.
  • Extract from : « O Pioneers! » by Willa Cather

Synonyms for teeming

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