teem

Crawl with life

Teem means to be full of or swarming with: The river teems with fish, streets teeming with tourists.

The word suggests abundant, active presence—not just quantity but movement and life.

A separate verb teem means to pour heavily, used mainly of rain: It was teeming down all afternoon.

abundance

plentiful

Existing in abundance

profuse · overflowing · replete · rife · brimming · bursting · thick · crawling · alive · swarming

crowd

throng

Dense pressing crowd

mob · press · crush · swarm · flood · stream · flock · surge · pour · jostle

swarm

hive

Bee dwelling structure

  • beesWinged pollinators
  • antsSocial colony insects
  • locustsSwarming crop-destroying grasshoppers

insects · mosquitoes · flies · wasps · colony · infestation · plague · nest · brood · cloud

life

spawning

Releasing eggs to reproduce

  • breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
  • fertileAble to reproduce abundantly
  • fecundRichly reproductive

prolific · thriving · flourishing · burgeoning · pullulating · reproducing · multiplying · propagating · generating · hatching

rain

pour

Send liquid streaming out

sheets · buckets · pelting · drenching · lashing · driving · streaming · gushing · cascading · sheeting

Categories
Opposites
abundance/quantity

teemlack

Deficiency or absence

want · empty · need · dwindle · peter out

rainfall intensity

teemdrizzle

Very light precipitation

sprinkle · mist · spit · dribble

Phrases
Family

teeming, teems, teemed

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G