| 单词 | teeming |
| 释义 | teeming (once / 2304 pages) adj Teeming means completely full, especially with living things. If your grandmother's apartment is teeming with cats, she sure has a lot of them. Any time something (or someplace) is filled with life, it's teeming with it. A gorgeous purple garden in the south of France might be teeming with lavender plants, and you might describe the crowded state fair grounds as teeming with people. The Old English root teman means to give birth to, and this used to be a common meaning of teeming — being fertile or pregnant, or producing young. WORD FAMILYteeming: teemingly, teemingness+/teem: teemed, teeming, teems USAGE EXAMPLESBy the next day, nearby creeks were teeming with oily, black waste. Salon(Dec 31, 2016) The area that was targeted on Saturday is packed with wholesale markets and usually teeming with daily labourers unloading vans and wheeling carts around. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) In addition, Prague is teeming with Russian spies. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) adj abundantly filled with especially living things the Third World's teeming millions the teeming boulevard Syn abundant present in great quantity |
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