teeming
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4.7
- adjective
- /ˈtiːmɪŋ/
- The garden was teeming with colorful flowers and buzzing bees.
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Watch on YouTubeIt's a big, urban, teeming place full of diversity.
- It's a big, urban, teeming place full of diversity.
- Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Examples
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A tonne of tiny organisms live on our bodies, a teeming microbiome of bacteria, fungi and mites.
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The water simply passes through the Sea of Galilee in and then out, and that keeps the lake healthy and vibrant, teeming with marine life.
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So the basic question is, are we alone or is the universe teeming with life?
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All of this will help us understand whether the universe is teeming with life or whether indeed it's just us.
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It's a big, urban, teeming place full of diversity.
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But it's actually teeming with life and we won't be able to see it at first.
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The Galaxy could be teeming with civilizations.
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The crowd is one enormous, teeming mass of brightly colored humanity.
Fiction book (2000) -
And where better to do that than amidst the teeming, faceless masses of the naked city?
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In the work of Marin, whose watercolors of the New England landscape were among the best-known images of the Stieglitz circle, critics saw not merely a depiction of mountains or coastline but also an expression of a vibrant, teeming natural world that surrounded the painter as he worked.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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4.1
Full of busy, noisy activity and many people
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3.7
Very full and crowded with almost no space
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3.4
So full that it is almost overflowing, often with a strong feeling
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3.6
Full of people and busy activity
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6.0
A place full of many people standing close together
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8.7
Full of small flying insects
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6.6
Very full after a large meal or in a crowded place
Antonyms
How Abundant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Teeming comes from the old verb teem, which meant 'to give birth' or 'to produce', so imagine a place that keeps making life. That's why a garden or street that is teeming is full or swarming with people or animals.