teem
verb [intransitive](usually be teeming)
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they teem | |
| he / she / it teems | |
| past simple teemed | |
| past participle teemed | |
| -ing form teeming |
(of rain 雨 to fall heavily 倾注；倾泻 Word Originverb Middle English: from Old Norse tœma ‘to empty’, from tómr ‘empty’. The original sense was ‘to empty’, specifically ‘to drain liquid from, pour liquid out’; the current sense (originally dialect) dates from the early 19th cent. teem with something. Old English tēman, tīeman, of Germanic origin; related to team. The original senses included ‘give birth to’, also ‘be or become pregnant’, giving rise to ‘be full of’ in the late 16th cent.