Synonyms for teemed

Grammar : Verb

Spell : teem

Phonetic Transcription : tim

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Définition of teemed

Origin : "abound, swarm," Old English teman (Mercian), tieman (West Saxon) "give birth to, produce," from Proto-Germanic *taumijanan, from PIE *deuk- "to lead" (see duke (n.)). Related to team in its now-obsolete Old English sense of "family, brood of young animals." The meaning "be fertile, abound, swarm" is first recorded 1590s. Related: Teemed; teeming.

verb be abundant, full

Example sentences :

I love thy victorious throne, which teemed with harmonious strains.
Extract from : « Y Gododin » by Aneurin

The foundries and dockyards of Algiers teemed with busy workmen.
Extract from : « The Story of the Barbary Corsairs » by Stanley Lane-Poole

Indeed, Juda teemed with monuments erected in honor of the Csars.
Extract from : « History of the Jews, Vol. II (of 6) » by Heinrich Graetz

Thebes stood erect, and Memphis teemed upon the river banks.
Extract from : « Incredible Adventures » by Algernon Blackwood

Before the horde there was a busy world which teemed with life.
Extract from : « The Forgotten Planet » by Murray Leinster

The place just teemed with the sporadic life of an Antarctic summer.
Extract from : « The Home of the Blizzard » by Douglas Mawson

This lake, perhaps half a mile in diameter, teemed with trout.
Extract from : « The Girl From Tim's Place » by Charles Clark Munn

Now he gazed about streets through which teemed the new activity.
Extract from : « The Law of Hemlock Mountain » by Hugh Lundsford

They were based on false principles and teemed with slander and invective.
Extract from : « Saint Bonaventure » by Rev. Fr. Laurence Costelloe, O.F.M.

Then, presently, in temples that had teemed, the silence of the desert brooded.
Extract from : « The Lords of the Ghostland » by Edgar Saltus

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