[tiːm], (Verb)

Definitions:
- be full of or swarming with
(e.g: every garden is teeming with wildlife)


Phrases:

Origin:
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 century

[tiːm], (Verb)

Definitions:
- (of water, especially rain) pour down; fall heavily
(e.g: with the rain teeming down at the manor, Italy seemed a long way off)


Phrases:

Origin:
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 century