teeming
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
teeming
adj 1: abundantly filled with especially living things; "the
Third World's teeming millions"; "the teeming boulevard"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Teem \Teem\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Teemed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Teeming}.] [OE. temen, AS. t[=e]man, t?man, from te['a]m.
See {Team}.]
1. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a
plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
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If she must teem,
Create her child of spleen. --Shak.
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2. To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to
overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.
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His mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to
cover former villainy. --Sir W.
Scott.
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The young, brimful of the hopes and feeling which
teem in our time. --F. Harrison.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
175 Moby Thesaurus words for "teeming":
abounding, abundant, affluent, alive with, all-sufficing, ample,
anticipating, aplenty, beset, big with child, big-laden, blooming,
bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, breeding, bristling, bursting,
bursting out, carrying, carrying a fetus, close, compact,
conceptive, conceptual, copious, crammed, crawling, creative,
creeping, crowded, crowding, dense, diffuse, diffusive, effuse,
effusive, epidemic, esemplastic, exhaustless, expecting,
extravagant, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, firm, flourishing,
flush, formless, fructiferous, fruitful, full, galore, generous,
germinal, gestating, gravid, great, grubby, gushing, gushy, heavy,
heavy with child, honeycombed, ideational, ideative, imaginative,
in plenty, in profusion, in quantity, inexhaustible, infested,
ingenious, inspired, inventive, jam-packed, jammed, knocked up,
lavish, liberal, lousy, lush, luxuriant, many, maximal, much,
multitudinous, notional, numerous, opulent, original, originative,
overabundant, overbounteous, overcopious, overexuberant,
overflowing, overgenerous, overlavish, overliberal, overluxuriant,
overmuch, overnumerous, overplenteous, overplentiful, overplenty,
overpopulated, overpopulous, overprolific, packed, parturient,
pedicular, pediculous, permeated, plagued, plenitudinous,
plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, plethoric, populous,
preggers, pregnant, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive,
profuse, profusive, proliferating, proliferous, prolific,
pullulating, rampant, ratty, ravaged, redundant, reiterative,
repetitive, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, saturated,
seminal, serried, shaping, shot through, solid, studded,
superabundant, superfetate, superimpregnated, swarming,
tautologous, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming,
thriving, thronged, thronging, uberous, visioned, wealthy,
well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale,
with child, wormy
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