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Word entry · 4 letters

teem

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"Move in large numbers"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /tiːm/Part of speech verbSorted eemtStarts with TEnds with M1 clues
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Definitions

  1. move in large numbers

Word 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).

Used in a sentence

  • But well he knew his teeming pangs were vain, Till Midwife Dryden eas’d his labouring Brain;
  • his mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy
  • Fish teem in this pond.

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