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verbtiːmtim [no object]teem withBe full of or swarming with. 充满，充足；多产 every garden is teeming with wildlife 每座花园都满是野生生物。 Example sentencesExamples - At times it was like being in a Mayfair disco or Warhol Happening, as drawings, photographs and digital images slowly teemed, swarmed, morphed and mutated over walls and ceilings.
- Venture out onto the teeming high street if you dare and the true nature of Camden will be revealed.
- Passing trade from the teeming streets is thus discouraged.
- Aristide hasn't ventured out into the teeming streets, though officials say he is free to come and go.
- The streets of Saigon teem with people, noises, and smells like no other city in Asia.
- Streets that once teemed with activity were now more silent than a graveyard.
- The city's streets teemed with people looking for entertainment, and he took advantage of the large audience, putting on 33 shows in three weeks.
- Its 24 acres teem with wildlife and offer a haven from the rush and bustle of a tourist city.
- I drove down streets that once teemed with life and now are ruined wastelands.
- With more than six billion people now inhabiting the planet, will we ever again see a time when whales fill the seas and the oceans teem with life?
- The street outside was teeming and the other places I peered into all looked equally packed.
- The streets teem with hustling, bustling humanity, hag-like beggar women, street urchins and drunken revellers urinating against inn walls, all rubbing shoulders with the gentry in their smart clothes and carriages.
- On a visit to Calcutta he was walking with her down a street teeming with poor people when he asked her how she could hope to make a difference.
- In the deep sea, where it's too dark for photosynthesis, the water teems with crabs, fish, jellyfish, mollusks, and other life-forms.
- I imagine Vancouver will be different, its streets teeming with people from all over the world.
- A couple of cats can do much less damage than a teeming apartment full of them.
- Today, the same streets teem with chic shops and restaurants, and many of the old factories have been converted into fancy apartments.
- The park is more commonly associated with the restorative powers of its 2,000 rose garden, teeming wildlife and hay meadows.
- As I step on to its teeming streets, I begin to understand his words, for the very pulse of this city can be felt instantly.
- Located in a street teeming with Italian restaurants, the beauty of this place is they'll always manage to squeeze you in somehow.
Synonyms be full of, be filled with, be alive with, be brimming with, be overflowing with, abound in, be swarming with, be bursting at the seams with be packed with, be crowded with, be thronged with, be crawling with, be overrun by, bristle with, seethe with, be thick with, be crammed with, be cram-full of, be choked with, be congested with informal be jam-packed with, be chock-a-block with, be chock-full with, be lousy with rare pullulate with
OriginOld English tēman, tīeman, of Germanic origin; related to team. The original senses included 'give birth to', also 'be or become pregnant', giving rise to 'be full of' in the late 16th century. team from Old English: The original Anglo-Saxon meaning of team was ‘the bearing of children’. From there it became ‘a brood of young animals’, and then ‘a set of draught animals working together’, which gave us the modern idea of a group of people or set of sports players in the 16th century. In the sense ‘to be full of’ teem (Old English) is linked to team, but teem (Middle English) as in ‘teeming with rain’ is a different word altogether, which comes from Old Norse tómr ‘empty’—the original sense was ‘to drain liquid from’, the same image as in ‘its pouring with rain’.
Rhymesabeam, agleam, beam, blaspheme, bream, deem, deme, downstream, dream, esteem, extreme, gleam, hakim, kilim, meme, midstream, Nîmes, régime, scheme, scream, seam, seem, steam, stream, supreme, team, theme, upstream verbtiːmtim [no object](of water, especially rain) pour down; fall heavily. （水，尤指雨水）倾泻，倾注 with the rain teeming down at the manor, Italy seemed a long way off 庄园内大雨如注，意大利显得很遥远。 Example sentencesExamples - When I got outside the store, I found that it was now absolutely teeming with rain and the wind was blowing half a gale.
- It teemed rain from once we set foot on the trail, the underfoot conditions were such that it was like wading through a soft riverbed, it was blowing a gale in the valleys and a hurricane up top.
- Unfortunately it was the first real night of winter and rain teemed down intermittently.
- They stood face to face under the balcony in the moonlight as the blustery rain teemed around them.
- It was a very watery first half with the rain teeming down on the players.
- And though it may have been teeming down outside, we were grateful we weren't one of the brave few toughing it out under canvas.
- The residents were piling up sodden carpets and furniture by the roadside, with the rain still teeming down.
- I could have smashed the bottle on the concrete front doorstep, but the rain was teeming down and I would get wet again.
- The event became even more surreal as the heavens opened and a monsoon rain teemed down, but the boxing went on regardless.
- The rain teemed down as both teams took to the pitch and while it didn't dampen the jovial atmosphere at the ground, it did make for a frustrating sixty minutes of football for both teams.
- Unfortunately the rain teemed down and a few rosy painted cheeks started to drip!
- Standing all day with the cattle was hard enough but if it was teeming rain, the big heavy coats of the time soaked the water and felt like a tonne weight by evening.
- The rain teemed down her face but she seemed not to care and her soaked clothes stuck to her body.
- But alas, the June day teemed with rain and the street parties had to retreat indoors.
- So hard was the rain teeming down on Friday that play on the famous golf course was called off before 3pm.
Synonyms pour (down), pelt down, tip down, beat down, lash down, sheet down, come down in torrents/sheets, rain cats and dogs informal be chucking it down British informal bucket down, come down in buckets/bucketloads, come down in stair rods, tipple down
OriginMiddle English: from Old Norse tœma 'to empty', from tómr 'empty'. The original sense was 'to empty', specifically 'to drain liquid from, pour liquid out'; the current sense (originally dialect) dates from the early 19th century. verbtēmtim [no object]teem withBe full of or swarming with. 充满，充足；多产 every garden is teeming with wildlife 每座花园都满是野生生物。 Example sentencesExamples - Passing trade from the teeming streets is thus discouraged.
- As I step on to its teeming streets, I begin to understand his words, for the very pulse of this city can be felt instantly.
- With more than six billion people now inhabiting the planet, will we ever again see a time when whales fill the seas and the oceans teem with life?
- The street outside was teeming and the other places I peered into all looked equally packed.
- On a visit to Calcutta he was walking with her down a street teeming with poor people when he asked her how she could hope to make a difference.
- I imagine Vancouver will be different, its streets teeming with people from all over the world.
- At times it was like being in a Mayfair disco or Warhol Happening, as drawings, photographs and digital images slowly teemed, swarmed, morphed and mutated over walls and ceilings.
- Its 24 acres teem with wildlife and offer a haven from the rush and bustle of a tourist city.
- The streets teem with hustling, bustling humanity, hag-like beggar women, street urchins and drunken revellers urinating against inn walls, all rubbing shoulders with the gentry in their smart clothes and carriages.
- Today, the same streets teem with chic shops and restaurants, and many of the old factories have been converted into fancy apartments.
- The city's streets teemed with people looking for entertainment, and he took advantage of the large audience, putting on 33 shows in three weeks.
- Aristide hasn't ventured out into the teeming streets, though officials say he is free to come and go.
- Venture out onto the teeming high street if you dare and the true nature of Camden will be revealed.
- In the deep sea, where it's too dark for photosynthesis, the water teems with crabs, fish, jellyfish, mollusks, and other life-forms.
- I drove down streets that once teemed with life and now are ruined wastelands.
- The park is more commonly associated with the restorative powers of its 2,000 rose garden, teeming wildlife and hay meadows.
- Streets that once teemed with activity were now more silent than a graveyard.
- Located in a street teeming with Italian restaurants, the beauty of this place is they'll always manage to squeeze you in somehow.
- A couple of cats can do much less damage than a teeming apartment full of them.
- The streets of Saigon teem with people, noises, and smells like no other city in Asia.
Synonyms be full of, be filled with, be alive with, be brimming with, be overflowing with, abound in, be swarming with, be bursting at the seams with
OriginOld English tēman, tīeman, of Germanic origin; related to team. The original senses included ‘give birth to’, also ‘be or become pregnant’, giving rise to ‘be full of’ in the late 16th century. verbtēmtim [no object](of water, especially rain) pour down; fall heavily. （水，尤指雨水）倾泻，倾注 with the rain teeming down at the manor, Italy seemed a long way off 庄园内大雨如注，意大利显得很遥远。 Example sentencesExamples - The rain teemed down as both teams took to the pitch and while it didn't dampen the jovial atmosphere at the ground, it did make for a frustrating sixty minutes of football for both teams.
- So hard was the rain teeming down on Friday that play on the famous golf course was called off before 3pm.
- Standing all day with the cattle was hard enough but if it was teeming rain, the big heavy coats of the time soaked the water and felt like a tonne weight by evening.
- It was a very watery first half with the rain teeming down on the players.
- Unfortunately the rain teemed down and a few rosy painted cheeks started to drip!
- When I got outside the store, I found that it was now absolutely teeming with rain and the wind was blowing half a gale.
- The residents were piling up sodden carpets and furniture by the roadside, with the rain still teeming down.
- And though it may have been teeming down outside, we were grateful we weren't one of the brave few toughing it out under canvas.
- The rain teemed down her face but she seemed not to care and her soaked clothes stuck to her body.
- They stood face to face under the balcony in the moonlight as the blustery rain teemed around them.
- It teemed rain from once we set foot on the trail, the underfoot conditions were such that it was like wading through a soft riverbed, it was blowing a gale in the valleys and a hurricane up top.
- But alas, the June day teemed with rain and the street parties had to retreat indoors.
- Unfortunately it was the first real night of winter and rain teemed down intermittently.
- I could have smashed the bottle on the concrete front doorstep, but the rain was teeming down and I would get wet again.
- The event became even more surreal as the heavens opened and a monsoon rain teemed down, but the boxing went on regardless.
Synonyms pour, pour down, pelt down, tip down, beat down, lash down, sheet down, come down in sheets, come down in torrents, rain cats and dogs
OriginMiddle English: from Old Norse tœma ‘to empty’, from tómr ‘empty’. The original sense was ‘to empty’, specifically ‘to drain liquid from, pour liquid out’; the current sense (originally dialect) dates from the early 19th century. |