teem with (someone or something)

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teem with (someone or something)

To overflow or swarm with people or things; to have a huge abundance of people or things. The trash was teeming with cockroaches. The city positively teemed with tourists ahead of the annual festival.
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teem with someone or something

to swarm with someone or something; to be abundant with someone or something. The porch was teeming with flies, so we couldn't eat there. The beach teemed with people enjoying the sunny weather.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

teem with

v.
To be full of something; abound or swarm with something: The rotten log is teaming with insects. The airport is teaming with police.
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References in classic literature ?
The jungle, as usual, was teeming with life, but as Ned and Tom did not wish to kill wantonly they refrained from shooting until later in the day.
I think there was no individual in the party whose brain was not teeming with thoughts and images and memories invoked by the grand history of the venerable city that lay before us, but still among them all was no "voice of them that wept."
He did not say brilliant things, but he talked inspiringly, with an eager vividness which fired the imagination; Philip, living so much in a world of make-believe, found his fancy teeming with new pictures.
Wyeth was the first ready; and, with his usual promptness and hardihood, launched his frail bark, singly, on this wild and hazardous voyage, down an almost interminable succession of rivers, winding through countries teeming with savage hordes.
During the long hours of darkness they caught but fitful snatches of sleep, for the night noises of a great jungle teeming with myriad animal life kept their overwrought nerves on edge, so that a hundred times they were startled to wakefulness by piercing screams, or the stealthy moving of great bodies beneath them.
It was a condition not unknown to them, for in all their experience, at one time or another, they had travelled one year through a region teeming with game, where, a year or two or three years later, no game at all would be found.
LOCAL people keen to look after a local woodland teeming with wildlife are being urged to get involved with the work of the Friends of Sot's Hole Nature Reserve, in West Bromwich.
Check out queer aesthete Jamie Stewart and company's latest: 35 minutes of ear-tingling, out-there experimentation teeming with raw emotion and startling sonic detail.
Yet a blog I am now looking at, one teeming with activity following a glowing review of E Magazine in Media Post, is full of my saying about global warming, with comments like, "Actually, everyone doesn't agree on global warming.
PICTURE THIS: 21ST-CENTURY explorers come upon a tropical paradise teeming with bizarre wildlife, huge flowers, and odd species untouched by humans for thousands of years.
Teeming with images that are as immediate and tactile as they are remote and fuzzy, the pieces lie somewhere between the wispiness of dreams and the concrete anguish of cultural isolation, which is appropriate to Yung's interest in cross-generational work as a bridge between past and future, fantasy and reality.
Their stories aren't infomercials or get-rich-quick schemes; they're genuine personal perspectives teeming with indispensable lessons and tips."
Some of the changes in these locales are grimly familiar, because they stem from the effects of pollution, overdevelopment, and invasive species on areas once teeming with diverse wildlife.
Fortunately, other trends are quietly forging their way through our culture, like biodynamic farming, rooted in an intention to follow the rules of the soil to grow food that's teeming with aliveness.