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Adjective: teeming  tee-ming
  1. Abundantly filled with especially living things
    "the Third World's teeming millions"; "the teeming boulevard"
Verb: teem  teem
  1. Move in large numbers
    "people were teeming out of the theatre";
    - pour, swarm, stream, pullulate
     
  2. Be teeming, be abuzz
    "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen";
    - pullulate, swarm
     
  3. [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], tip [Brit, informal], chuck it down [Brit, informal], chuck [Brit, informal], bucket [Brit, informal]

Sounds like: tease, teaseeming, t

See also: abundant

Type of: buzz, crowd, crowd together, hum, rain, rain down, seethe

Encyclopedia: Teem