teeming
pronunciation
How to pronounce teeming in British English:
UK [ˈtiːmɪŋ]
How to pronounce teeming in American English:
US [ ˈtiːmɪŋ]
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- Adjective:
- abundantly filled with especially living things
Word Origin
- teeming (adj.)
- "swarming," 1715, earlier "abundantly productive, fertile" (1590s), present participle adjective from teem (v.1).
Example
- 1. In the country 's teeming capital , tehran , the repression is a shade less overt .
- 2. Salmon need rivers which are quickly blocked and fouled by human development , and the teeming runs of old are now rare .
- 3. Anyone who grew up , as I did , in teeming england will be struck by how sparsely inhabited the us still is .
- 4. The food crisis of the past 18 months has sharpened worries about how to feed the teeming slums .
- 5. Fewer teeming masses in africa ( the population of which the u.n. projects will triple by 2100 ) would be a good for our fragile planet , according to people in the united states .