Teem
verb
To be full of something, usually moving.
The river teemed with fish.
Often appears as...
- teem with life
- teem with people
verb
To pour something out in large amounts.
The skies were teeming rain.
Often appears as...
- the skies teem rain
- teem out
verb
To become pregnant and produce offspring.
Often appears as...
- the earth teems with offspring
- teem forth
verb
To be full of something, usually moving.
The river teemed with fish.
Often appears as...
- teem with life
- teem with people
verb
To pour something out in large amounts.
The skies were teeming rain.
Often appears as...
- the skies teem rain
- teem out
verb
To become pregnant and produce offspring.
Often appears as...
- the earth teems with offspring
- teem forth
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Pro Tip 1/3Vibrant Imagery
Imagine a scene bustling with action or life when using 'teem'. It suggests vibrant activity.
During the festival, the streets teemed with dancers and musicians.
Pro Tip 2/3Exaggerated Quantity
'Teem' often exaggerates the amount of something to suggest a very large number.
After the rain, the garden was teeming with snails.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Settings
'Teem' is frequently used to describe natural environments that are full of life.
The jungle teemed with exotic birds and insects.
Pro Tip 1/3Vibrant Imagery
Imagine a scene bustling with action or life when using 'teem'. It suggests vibrant activity.
During the festival, the streets teemed with dancers and musicians.
Pro Tip 2/3Exaggerated Quantity
'Teem' often exaggerates the amount of something to suggest a very large number.
After the rain, the garden was teeming with snails.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Settings
'Teem' is frequently used to describe natural environments that are full of life.
The jungle teemed with exotic birds and insects.
Pro Tip 1/3Vibrant Imagery
Imagine a scene bustling with action or life when using 'teem'. It suggests vibrant activity.
During the festival, the streets teemed with dancers and musicians.
Pro Tip 2/3Exaggerated Quantity
'Teem' often exaggerates the amount of something to suggest a very large number.
After the rain, the garden was teeming with snails.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Settings
'Teem' is frequently used to describe natural environments that are full of life.
The jungle teemed with exotic birds and insects.
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How spontaneous brain...
are always active. And the signals they send are increases and decreases in the rate of activity, rather than separate bursts. So at every level, our nervous system is teeming with spontaneous activity that helps it interpret and respond to any signals it might receive.
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How the food you eat...
Fermented foods are teeming with helpful probiotic bacteria, like lactobacillus and bifidobacteria. Originally used as a way of preserving foods before the invention of refrigeration, fermentation remains a traditional practice all over the world.
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How does your immune...
also known as leukocytes, that originate in our bone marrow. These cells migrate into the bloodstream and the lymphatic system, a network of vessels which helps clear bodily toxins and waste. Our bodies are teeming with
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Why is our universe...
a picture of the cosmos that we definitively know to be wrong. Now maybe those future astronomers will have records handed down from an earlier era, like ours, attesting to an expanding cosmos teeming with galaxies.
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How mucus keeps us...
it's really helping you stay healthy. Sure, it might seem gross, but can you think of any other substance that can lubricate, keep your body clean, fight infection, and domesticate a teeming bacterial population?
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There’s Still Oil on...
so this rock is teeming with life you have kelp crab you have barnacles snail you have muscles you have barnacles on those mussels this is part of a food chain and we are part of and it's not five years after
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Questions No One Knows...
that humanity has ever seen. Somewhere out there in that vast universe there must surely be countless other planets teeming with life. But why don't we see any evidence of it?
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Footprints in the ocean...
snow and unlike outer space where we have yet been able to find life the ocean and every drop of it is teeming with life and so that's why I've become a
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Why Can't We See...
Somewhere out there in that vast universe, there must surely be countless other planets teeming with life, but why don't we see any evidence of it?
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10 Million Subscribers,...
our incredible planet is teeming with life and it's a pleasure to share it with you
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How spontaneous brain...
are always active. And the signals they send are increases and decreases in the rate of activity, rather than separate bursts. So at every level, our nervous system is teeming with spontaneous activity that helps it interpret and respond to any signals it might receive.
Video examples
How the food you eat...
Fermented foods are teeming with helpful probiotic bacteria, like lactobacillus and bifidobacteria. Originally used as a way of preserving foods before the invention of refrigeration, fermentation remains a traditional practice all over the world.
Video examples
How does your immune...
also known as leukocytes, that originate in our bone marrow. These cells migrate into the bloodstream and the lymphatic system, a network of vessels which helps clear bodily toxins and waste. Our bodies are teeming with
Video examples
Why is our universe...
a picture of the cosmos that we definitively know to be wrong. Now maybe those future astronomers will have records handed down from an earlier era, like ours, attesting to an expanding cosmos teeming with galaxies.
Video examples
How mucus keeps us...
it's really helping you stay healthy. Sure, it might seem gross, but can you think of any other substance that can lubricate, keep your body clean, fight infection, and domesticate a teeming bacterial population?
Video examples
There’s Still Oil on...
so this rock is teeming with life you have kelp crab you have barnacles snail you have muscles you have barnacles on those mussels this is part of a food chain and we are part of and it's not five years after
Video examples
Questions No One Knows...
that humanity has ever seen. Somewhere out there in that vast universe there must surely be countless other planets teeming with life. But why don't we see any evidence of it?
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Footprints in the ocean...
snow and unlike outer space where we have yet been able to find life the ocean and every drop of it is teeming with life and so that's why I've become a
Video examples
Why Can't We See...
Somewhere out there in that vast universe, there must surely be countless other planets teeming with life, but why don't we see any evidence of it?
Video examples
10 Million Subscribers,...
our incredible planet is teeming with life and it's a pleasure to share it with you
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John Burnside
Scottish Writer
This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.
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Trudie Styler
English Actress
The film industry is driven by male narrative. Heads of studios are often men, teeming with male executives everywhere you look, and so the narratives we have the screenwriters usually for male leads. Women tend to be second string: the girlfriend of, the secretary who becomes.
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Edward Weston
American Photographer
Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
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Paul Guilfoyle
American Actor
The thing that attracted me to 'CSI' is that these guys are always professional, but underneath, it's teeming with a heavy shadow. Maybe even some decadence and some weirdness with certain characters! And that always intrigued me as an actor.
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Adam Cohen
American Journalist
Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest.
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Paul Davies
British Writer
If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets.
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Tom Allen
American Politician
The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.
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Lothar Matthaus
German Athlete
Mexico and Italy are countries where you can almost taste the atmosphere from the teeming stands when you're on the field, and that's a real motivation for a player.
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Robert Falcon Scott
British Explorer
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
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Carrie Nugent
American Scientist
Our solar system is actually a wild frontier, teeming with different, diverse places: planets and moons, millions of objects of ice and rock.
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John Burnside
Scottish Writer
This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.
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Trudie Styler
English Actress
The film industry is driven by male narrative. Heads of studios are often men, teeming with male executives everywhere you look, and so the narratives we have the screenwriters usually for male leads. Women tend to be second string: the girlfriend of, the secretary who becomes.
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Edward Weston
American Photographer
Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
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Paul Guilfoyle
American Actor
The thing that attracted me to 'CSI' is that these guys are always professional, but underneath, it's teeming with a heavy shadow. Maybe even some decadence and some weirdness with certain characters! And that always intrigued me as an actor.
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Adam Cohen
American Journalist
Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest.
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Paul Davies
British Writer
If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets.
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Tom Allen
American Politician
The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.
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Lothar Matthaus
German Athlete
Mexico and Italy are countries where you can almost taste the atmosphere from the teeming stands when you're on the field, and that's a real motivation for a player.
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Robert Falcon Scott
British Explorer
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
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Carrie Nugent
American Scientist
Our solar system is actually a wild frontier, teeming with different, diverse places: planets and moons, millions of objects of ice and rock.
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