So for the 12 years he spent at Aldgate, Chaucer was mostly alone, with a teeming urban scene literally beneath his feet.
Ebola causes the body to excrete fluids that are teeming with the virus.
Remember those quaint ethnic communities, once teeming with stickball games and eggplant-shaped old women wielding rolling pins?
A new study claims breast milk ordered online is teeming with bacteria.
I hated the concrete, cursed the teeming masses who looked just like me.
For me she was only an incident in this teeming radiant life.
They are all gone now, but then they were humming and teeming with work.
She was aware for the first time of the teeming horrors of life.
Jeter and Eyer both understood the thoughts which were teeming in Kress' brain.
Town or country, it's all the same—the air chokes me, it's teeming with moral bacilli.
"swarming," 1715, present participle adjective from teem (v.1).
"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.
"to flow copiously," c.1300, from Old Norse toema "to empty," from tomr "empty," cognate with Old English tom "empty." The original notion is of "to empty a vessel," thus "to pour out." Related: Teemed; teeming.
