Verb: teem teem
- Move in large numbers
"Tourists teemed through the museum";
- pour, swarm, stream, pullulate
- Be teeming, be abuzz
"The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen";
- pullulate, swarm
- [informal] Rain heavily
"Put on your rain coat— it's teeming outside!";
- pour, pelt, rain cats and dogs [informal], rain buckets [informal], belt down [informal], pelt down [informal], bucket [Brit, informal], tip [Brit, informal], chuck it down [Brit, informal], chuck [Brit, informal]
Sounds like: tea, tee, ti, te, T
Derived forms: teems, teeming, teemed
Type of: buzz, crowd, crowd together, hum, rain, rain down, seethe
Encyclopedia: Teem