OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 13754

teem

/tiːm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
bullir • hervir de • rebosar de
To be stocked to overflowing.
But well he knew his teeming pangs were vain, Till Midwife Dryden eas’d his labouring Brain;
his mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy
proliferar
To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
Fish teem in this pond.
The steel works, with their Siemens furnaces, the rail-rolling mill with its enormous single-cylinder engine fitted with Corliss valve gear, and the forge in which were installed t…
fructificar
To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
If she must teem, / Create her child of spleen.
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