teeming

4 definitions found

teeming - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Teeming \Teem"ing\, a.
     Prolific; productive.
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           Teeming buds and cheerful appear.        --Dryden.
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  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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teeming - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  teeming
      adj 1: abundantly filled with especially living things; "the
             Third World's teeming millions"; "the teeming boulevard"

teeming - 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