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    teeming
    [ˈtēmiNG]
    adjective
    teeming (adjective)
    1. full of people or things; crowded:
      "she walked through the teeming streets"
    teem
    [tēm]
    verb
    teeming (present participle)
    1. be full of or swarming with:
      "every garden is teeming with wildlife"
    Origin
    Old English tēman, tīeman, of Germanic origin; related to team. The original senses included ‘give birth to’, also ‘be or become pregnant’, giving rise to ‘be full of’ in the late 16th century.
    teem
    [tēm]
    verb
    teeming (present participle)
    1. (of water, especially rain) pour down; fall heavily:
      "with the rain teeming down at the manor, Italy seemed a long way off"
    Origin
    Middle English: from Old Norse tœma ‘to empty’, from tómr ‘empty’. The original sense was ‘to empty’, specifically ‘to drain liquid from, pour liquid out’; the current sense (originally dialect) dates from the early 19th century.
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    verb
    1. be full of or swarming with:
      be full of
      be filled with
      be alive with
      be brimming with
      be overflowing with
      abound in
      be swarming with
      be bursting at the seams with
      be packed with
      be crowded with
      be thronged with
      be crawling with
      be overrun by
      bristle with
      seethe with
      be thick with
      be crammed with
      be cram-full of
      be choked with
      be congested with
      be jam-packed with
      be chockablock with
      be chock-full with
      be lousy with
      be heaving with
      pullulate with
    verb
    1. (of water, especially rain) pour down; fall heavily:
      beat down
      lash down
      rain cats and dogs
      pour (down)
      pelt down
      tip down
      sheet down
      come down in torrents/sheets
      be chucking it down
      bucket down
      come down in buckets/bucketloads
      come down in stair rods
      tipple down
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