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Teem

verb
(past & past part. teemed; pres. part. teeming)
1.
Be teeming, be abuzz.  Synonyms: pullulate, swarm.  "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen" , "Her mind pullulated with worries"
2.
Move in large numbers.  Synonyms: pour, pullulate, stream, swarm.  "Beggars pullulated in the plaza"



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"Teem" Quotes from Famous Books



... there are not such foes. Outside of the clearings, and of the beaten tracks of travel, they teem. There are ticks, poisonous ants, wasps—of which some species are really serious menaces—biting flies and gnats. I merely mean that, unlike so many other tropical regions, this particular region is, from the standpoint of the settler and the ordinary ...
— Through the Brazilian Wilderness • Theodore Roosevelt

... necessary to dwell upon the importance of the study of Mythology: our poems, our novels, and even our daily journals teem with classical allusions; nor can a visit to our art galleries and museums be fully enjoyed without something more than a mere superficial knowledge of a subject which has in all ages inspired painters, sculptors, and poets. It therefore only remains for me to express a ...
— Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome • E.M. Berens

... hangs the sombre Night O'er wood and valley, stream and craggy height! While nearer objects, bush, and waving bough, Their dark uncertain forms but dimly show; Like those with which disturbed fancies teem, And shape the scen'ry of a gloomy dream. The moon is cover'd with her sable shrowd; And o'er the heav'us rove many a dusky cloud; Thro' ragged rents the paly sky is seen, And feebly glance the twinkling stars between: ...
— Poems, &c. (1790) • Joanna Baillie

... the beech that you would bind Unlawfully to human mind. Gone is every woodland elf To the mighty god himself. Mortal! You yourself are fast! Doubt not Pan shall come at last To put a leer within your eyes That pry into his mysteries. He shall touch the busy brain Lest it ever teem again; Point the ears and twist the feet, Till by day you dare not meet Men, or in the failing light Mutter ...
— Georgian Poetry 1911-12 • Various

... devil, devil! If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.— Out of ...
— Othello, the Moor of Venice • William Shakespeare


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