Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to teem
Participle: teemed
Gerund: teeming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | teem |
| you | teem |
| he;she;it | teems |
| we | teem |
| you | teem |
| they | teem |
Perfect
| I | have teemed |
| you | have teemed |
| he;she;it | has teemed |
| we | have teemed |
| you | have teemed |
| they | have teemed |
Past
| I | teemed |
| you | teemed |
| he;she;it | teemed |
| we | teemed |
| you | teemed |
| they | teemed |
Pluperfect
| I | had teemed |
| you | had teemed |
| he;she;it | had teemed |
| we | had teemed |
| you | had teemed |
| they | had teemed |
Future
| I | will teem |
| you | will teem |
| he;she;it | will teem |
| we | will teem |
| you | will teem |
| they | will teem |
Future Perfect
| I | will have teemed |
| you | will have teemed |
| he;she;it | will have teemed |
| we | will have teemed |
| you | will have teemed |
| they | will have teemed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | teem |
| you | teem |
| he;she;it | teem |
| we | teem |
| you | teem |
| they | teem |
Perfect
| I | have teemed |
| you | have teemed |
| he;she;it | have teemed |
| we | have teemed |
| you | have teemed |
| they | have teemed |
Imperfect
| I | teemed |
| you | teemed |
| he;she;it | teemed |
| we | teemed |
| you | teemed |
| they | teemed |
Pluperfect
| I | had teemed |
| you | had teemed |
| he;she;it | had teemed |
| we | had teemed |
| you | had teemed |
| they | had teemed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would teem |
| you | would teem |
| he;she;it | would teem |
| we | would teem |
| you | would teem |
| they | would teem |
Perfect
| I | would have teemed |
| you | would have teemed |
| he;she;it | would have teemed |
| we | would have teemed |
| you | would have teemed |
| they | would have teemed |
Imperative
| you | teem |
| we | Let's teem |
| you | teem |
Verbs conjugated like 'teem'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'teem'
deem,
reem,
seem,
steem,
team,
tee,
teek,
teen,
teep,
teer,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- abound
- swarm, overflow, crawl, prosper, pullulate, flow
- pour
- shower, empty, discharge
Antonyms
- abound
- lessen, decrease, wane, fall
Additional Information
Etymology
1. "abound, swarm," O.E.
teman (Mercian),
tieman (W.Saxon) "give birth to, produce," from P.Gmc.
*taumijanan, from PIE
*deuk- "to lead" (see duke). Related to team in its now-obsolete O.E. sense of "family, brood of young animals." The meaning "be fertile, abound, swarm" is first recorded 1593;
teeming in this sense is from 1715.
2. 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). See: Middle English '
temen', Proto-Germanic '
*taumijaną'.
Verbs referencing "teem"
German, old spelling
ziemen.
Sample Sentences
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[...] speculated in, on the faith of monstrous representations, to many people 's ruin. A dismal swamp, on which the half-built houses rot away: cleared here and there for the space of a few yards; and teeming, then, with rank unwholesome vegetation, in whose baleful shade the wretched wanderers who are tempted hither, droop, and die, and lay their bones; the hateful Mississippi circling and eddying [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)