teem

• POS: Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

teem, v. t. [Icel. tæma to empty, from tōmr empty; akin to Dan. tömme to empty, Sw. tömma. See Toom to empty.].

•  To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.  Swift.  [1913 Webster]
•  To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.  [1913 Webster]

teem, v. t. [See Tame, a., and cf. Beteem.].

 To think fit.  G. Gifford.  [1913 Webster]

teem, v. i. [OE. temen, AS. tēman, tman, from teám. See Team.].

•  To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.  [1913 Webster]

  "If she must teem,
  Create her child of spleen."  [1913 Webster]
•  To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.  [1913 Webster]

  "His mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy."  [1913 Webster]

  "The young, brimful of the hopes and feeling which teem in our time."  [1913 Webster]

teem, v. t. 

 To produce; to bring forth.  [1913 Webster]
"That [grief] of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker;
Each minute teems a new one."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

teem, v.intr.
1 be abundant (fish teem in these waters).
2 (foll. by with) be full of or swarming with (teeming with fish; teeming with ideas).

teem, v.intr. (often foll. by down) (of water etc.) flow copiously; pour (it was teeming with rain).

Etymology

ME temen f. ON toema f. t{oacute}mr (adj.) empty

THESAURUS

teem

abound, abound with, be alive with, be fruitful, be productive, beget, bespread, bristle, bristle with, burst with, bustle, clutter, cram, crawl, crawl with, creep with, crowd, diffuse, drench, engender, extend throughout, exuberate, fill, flood, flow, fructify, gush, honeycomb, imbue, jam, know no bounds, lash, leave no void, leaven, luxuriate, multiply, occupy, overabound, overbrim, overflow, overflow with, overgrow, overrun, overspill, overspread, overswarm, pack, penetrate, permeate, pervade, pour, proliferate, pullulate, pullulate with, rain, reproduce, run over, run riot, run through, shower, spill over, stream, suffuse, superabound, swarm, swarm with, teem with, throng with, transfuse

ROGET THESAURUS

teem

Sufficiency

VB be sufficient, suffice, do, just do, satisfy, pass muster, have enough, eat, one's fill, drink one's fill, have one's fill, roll in, swim in, wallow in, wanton, abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down, pour, pour in, swarm, bristle with, superabound, render sufficient, replenish, Adj, sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible, measured, moderate, full, ample, plenty, plentiful, plenteous, plenty as blackberries, copious, abundant, abounding, replete, enough and to spare, flush, choke-full, chock-full, well-stocked, well- provided, liberal, unstinted, unstinting, stintless, without stint, unsparing, unmeasured, lavish, wholesale, rich, luxuriant, affluent, wantless, big with, unexhausted, unwasted, exhaustless, inexhaustible, Adv, sufficiently, amply.

Production

VB produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.

Productiveness

VB make productive, fructify, procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative, impregnate, fecundate, fecundify, teem, multiply, produce, conceive.