teeming

¹

[tee-ming]

adjective

1. abounding or swarming with something, as with people.

   We elbowed our way through the teeming station.

2. prolific or fertile.

teeming

²

[tee-ming]

adjective

1. falling in torrents.

   a teeming rain.

Other Word Forms

• teemingly adverb
• teemingness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of teeming¹

First recorded in 1525–35; teem ¹ + -ing ²

Origin of teeming²

First recorded in 1685–95; teem ² + -ing ²

Example Sentences

And he has seen them descend on Mono Lake when the water is teeming with brine shrimp and the larvae and pupae of alkali flies.

From Los Angeles Times

In the sweltering Florida Everglades, surrounded by marshland teeming with alligators and accessible only by a narrow, winding road, lies a facility that’s become a flashpoint in the state’s escalating immigration crackdown.

From Salon

It’s just a short walk from the bus to a raised wooden boardwalk that winds above grassy wetlands and runs alongside Herring Creek — which, when we visited, was absolutely teeming with jumping, spawning salmon.

From Salon

The film is teeming with viral headlines — serious, frivolous or false — jumbled together on computer screens screaming for attention in the same all-caps font.

From Los Angeles Times

Except from behind the windshield, where he views the world as teeming with schemers and brutes, acting on all manner of Machiavellian impulses.

From Los Angeles Times

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