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Added 9 October 2026

teem

/tiːm/ verb

In Latin: parturiō Wiktionary

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To be stocked to overflowing.
To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
Fish teem in this pond.
To fall prolifically.

noun

A downpour (of rain).

verb

To empty.
To pour (especially with rain)
To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.

verb

To think fit.

Origin

From Middle English temen (“to bear, to support”), from Anglian Old English tēman (“to give birth”) (West Saxon Old English tīeman), from Proto-West Germanic *taumijan (“to bridle”), from Proto-Germanic *taumijaną, from *taumaz ("bridle", continued in Modern English as team).

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