teemed

verb

past tense of teem
as in burst
to be copiously supplied the area teems with entrepreneurs hoping to hit upon the next big thing

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Recent Examples of teemed In Stubb’s Cave, strangler-fig roots teemed from ceiling apertures. — Henry Wismayer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teemed
  1. burst
  2. buzzed
  3. bulged
  4. brimmed
  5. hummed
  6. abounded
  7. swarmed
  8. overflowed
Verb
  • His emotions — and that sticky goo in his wrists — are about to burst.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
  • Along the narrow hallway, bookshelves burst with first editions of John Updike, battered Stephen Kings, graphic novels, dime-store paperbacks, board games, books about mythology, children’s fairy tales, and Warhammer rule sets.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 July 2026
Definition of burst
Verb
  • Two flies buzzed the kitchen while three of their friends did the same in the dry food storage area.
    — David J. Neal July 31, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
  • And a bit later, his phone buzzed with a few texts from friends.
    — Ethan Brooks, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
Definition of buzzed
Verb
  • My husband Grant Wahl's bulged and burst, at an age when this disease usually means something inherited.
    — Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 13 July 2026
  • That ball found the head of Jude Bellingham, whose diving header bulged the net and opened the scoring.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Definition of bulged
Verb
  • Sitting with her children in a carriage during the parade and later appearing on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, the princess wore nodded to her late mother-in-law Princess Diana's 1987 Easter outfit in a pale blue ensemble and wide-brimmed hat by Catherine Walker.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 15 June 2026
  • Conversations between the two often brimmed with lessons on life, which Honda carries close to heart.
    — Julius Miller Follow, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
Definition of brimmed
Verb
  • The town's only hospital hummed with ambulances, burial teams and a steady stream of patients.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 21 July 2026
  • DeChambeau hummed and whistled and messed with the 15 or so reporters still waiting him out.
    — Brody Miller, New York Times, 17 July 2026
Definition of hummed
Verb
  • Speculation abounded online about a conspiracy to return Messi to the final.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 16 July 2026
  • Individual errors and legacy-challenging performances abounded throughout a 4-1 loss to Belgium in the Round of 16 that leaves the USMNT in a sad and strange position coming out of the 2026 World Cup on home soil.
    — NBC News, NBC news, 7 July 2026
Definition of abounded
Verb
  • The challenge was to see how many passes each team could complete before they were dispossessed as opponents swarmed all over them.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
  • And when the sun went down again the clouds were pink and then blue and then darker, and stars swarmed in.
    — Gabriel Winslow-Yost, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
Definition of swarmed
Verb
  • By evening, crowds overflowed outside the site and spilled onto the streets and lanes.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
  • Mason took the list and started a conversation with another kid his age whose hands overflowed with stickers.
    — Maria Jose Gutierrez-Chavez, Curbed, 17 July 2026
Definition of overflowed

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