teemed
past simple and past participle ofteem
teem
verb[I]
UKuk/tiːm/us/tiːm/(alsoteem down)torainheavily:
It's been teeming down allday.
It's teemingwithrain.
Precipitation: rain
- bucket
- bucket down
- cloud seeder
- cloud seeding
- cloudburst
- deluge
- downpour
- drizzle
- heaven
- mizzle
- pelt
- piss
- piss down
- rain gauge
- rainbow
- rainstorm
- seed
- sun shower
- wash
- wash(something)out
Phrasal verb
teem withsomething
Examplesofteemed
teemed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Clearly, these social excessesteemedwith possibilities for satire and parody, to which each audience member would nevertheless have responded in his own way.
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Let them go now, and see the valleys that at one timeteemedwith people who were happy and contented and, comparatively speaking, comfortable.
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For 50 million years, the great whales lived in perfect balance with nature, the seasteemedwith whales and fish were in superabundance.
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Before intensive fishing methods were employed, the seasteemedwith all fish species.
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The whole cheering command entered the valley, and the villageteemedwith activity like an anthill which had just been stirred up.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Art was filled with health and happiness; paintingsteemedwith busy industrial and agricultural scenes, and sculptures depicted workers, sentries, and schoolchildren.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Public newspapers and private lettersteemedwith the unheard-of advantages to be derived from a settlement in this highly-favoured region.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the valleys, perennially flowing riversteemedwith fish and were bordered by seed-bearing grasslands.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Throughout the 17th century and the 18th century and the 19th century, this continentteemedwith manifold projects and magnificent purposes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The margins of the bayteemedwith marine life.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Although the market had been discontinued, the town must haveteemedwith small shops and workshops.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theyteemedwith articles and provisions of every kind and were adorned with shops and marts swelling with prosperity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Local markets are never without chili, alwaysteemedwith different colors and sizes, in fresh and dried form.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A huge conurbation, the cityteemedwith recent migrants from the rural villages.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The soil was extremely fertile, andteemedwith an industrious population.
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- family-practice
- family practitioner
- family-practitioner
- family preservation
- family resemblance
- family reunion
- family room
- family-room
- family-run business
- family style
- family-style
- family surname
- family therapy
- family tree
- family-tree
- family vacation
- family values
- family-values
- famine
- famine relief
- famish
- famished
- famous
- famous actor
- famous architect