teeming

[ tee-ming ]

/ ˈti mɪŋ /

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adjective

abounding or swarming with something, as with people: We elbowed our way through the teeming station.

prolific or fertile.

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Origin of teeming

First recorded in 1525–35; teem¹ + -ing²

teem·ing·ly, adverbteem·ing·ness, noun

teeming²

[ tee-ming ]

/ ˈti mɪŋ /

adjective

falling in torrents: a teeming rain.

First recorded in 1685–95; teem² + -ing²

So for the 12 years he spent at Aldgate, Chaucer was mostly alone, with a teeming urban scene literally beneath his feet.
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Ebola causes the body to excrete fluids that are teeming with the virus.
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Today Skid Row resembles a Third World tent city teeming with sleeping bags, shopping carts, and people with nowhere else to go.
The FBI Declares War on L.A.’s Crips|Andrew Romano|June 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Remember those quaint ethnic communities, once teeming with stickball games and eggplant-shaped old women wielding rolling pins?
Weren’t Those the Bad Old Days? The Poison of New York City Nostalgia|Michael Moynihan|January 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST

A new study claims breast milk ordered online is teeming with bacteria.
Buy That Breast Milk!|Kent Sepkowitz|October 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
His banks were teeming with happy dusky figures and the smiling irrigated land was bright with fertility.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
This may be so in England, with its teeming population and its almost illimitable industrial resources.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
The morning after your performance your breakfast-table is covered with newspapers teeming with laudatory criticisms.
Black Diamonds|Mr Jkai
In whatever way I began, it always ended in a letter teeming with affection and with grief.
My Ten Years' Imprisonment|Silvio Pellico
God delivers into your hands that teeming soil, its palaces, its beautiful women, its treasures.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman|Eugne Sue