Definitions for teeming

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teeming teem·ing

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IPA: /ˈti mɪŋ/

Teeming is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in teeming (eegimnt).

Definitions for teeming

adjective

1. abounding or swarming with something, as with people:
2. prolific or fertile.
3. falling in torrents:

verb (used with object)

1. Obsolete. to produce (offspring).

verb (used without object)

1. to abound or swarm; be prolific or fertile (usually followed by with).
2. Obsolete. to be or become pregnant; bring forth young.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to empty or pour out; discharge.

Origin of teeming

First recorded in 1525-35; teem¹ + -ing²

Examples for teeming

Ebola causes the body to excrete fluids that are teeming with the virus.

For me she was only an incident in this teeming radiant life.

I hated the concrete, cursed the teeming masses who looked just like me.

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.

So for the 12 years he spent at Aldgate, Chaucer was mostly alone, with a teeming urban scene literally beneath his feet.

She was aware for the first time of the teeming horrors of life.

A new study claims breast milk ordered online is teeming with bacteria.

Remember those quaint ethnic communities, once teeming with stickball games and eggplant-shaped old women wielding rolling pins?

They are all gone now, but then they were humming and teeming with work.