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teemingteem‧ing /ˈtiːmɪŋ/ adjective   - It was the start of the new semester, and the campus was teeming with students.
- the teeming streets of Cairo
- They must have contracted them from bacteria transported from the teeming insanitary slums on the other side of town.
- We had to stand back from the edge of the pavement as their wheels splashed along the teeming gutters.
when a place is full of people► crowded so full of people that it is difficult to move or find a place to sit or stand: · The train was really crowded.· a crowded elevatorcrowded with: · It was two weeks before Christmas and the mall was crowded with shoppers. ► packed also packed out informal so full of people that there is almost no space left: · The club is so popular that it's usually packed by 9 o'clock.packed with: · St Peter's Square was packed with tourists.jam-packed (=completely full): · The football ground was absolutely jam-packed. ► overcrowded a place that is overcrowded has too many people in it and is unpleasant and uncomfortable: · The buses are filthy and overcrowded.· overcrowded prisons ► be swarming with if a place is swarming with people it is so crowded with them that it is difficult to move around - use this especially when a place is full of people you disapprove of or when you are annoyed that a place is so crowded: · The place was swarming with noisy schoolkids. ► teeming very full of people and activity: · the teeming streets of Cairoteeming with: · It was the start of the new semester, and the campus was teeming with students. when a place is full of animals, people etc► be teeming with be full of people, animals, insects etc all moving around: · The small stretch of water was teeming with wildfowl.· Times Square was teeming with theater-goers.· The tragedy is that this whole region remains teeming with desperately poor people. ► be swarming/crawling with to be very full of animals, people, insects etc, all moving around very quickly or busily - use this especially when you think this is unpleasant in some way: · At this time of year the town is usually crawling with tourists.· The campsite was filthy and swarming with flies.· Our hotel room was crawling with bugs and roaches. ► be jammed to be full of a lot of people standing or sitting very close together: · Japanese trains may be jammed, but at least they are punctual.be jammed with: · The room was jammed with fans trying to get his autograph. 1full of people, animals etc that are all moving around:  the teeming streets of the city2British English teeming rain is very heavy rain: She walked home through the teeming rain. |