teem

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To be full of a large number of people, animals, or things.

   The pond teems with fish in the summer.

2. 2
   verb

   To rain very heavily.

   We stayed indoors because it was teeming with rain all day.

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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