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
  • But the comics bubble burst in the early 2000s, right when King was graduating from college.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 16 July 2026
  • In that time, competing tokenization specialists from the crypto industry such as Ondo and Securitize have burst onto the scene, threatening legacy clearing infrastructure through high-profile partnerships with giants including BlackRock.
    — Tanaya Macheel, CNBC, 15 July 2026
Definition of burst
Verb
  • Phones buzzed with warnings all night warning of flash floods in the morning.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
  • In the 1970s and 80s, dirt bikes buzzed around its fragile landscape, creating erosion and noise.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 8 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
  • Construction has hummed along at the store site, and the warehouse has started to take shape in recent weeks.
    — Nathan Pilling July 8, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026
  • Experiments were running, discoveries being made, and conferences hummed with new ideas.
    — Florencia Canelli, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
Definition of hummed
Verb
  • 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
  • Skepticism abounded among allies, officials, and executives over the details and durability of the US truce with Iran.
    — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 16 June 2026
Definition of abounded
Verb
  • The predator that found paradise Blue crabs swarmed quietly for decades around the Po Delta lagoons.
    — Kasha Patel, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
  • About an hour later, neighbors heard sirens as an ambulance, a fire truck, and police swarmed the area.
    — Eric Adler July 18, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2026
Definition of swarmed
Verb
  • At the committee hearing Wednesday, the room overflowed with supporters who queued up in the room and outside in the corridor to make public comment and emphasize the importance of the bill.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2026
  • Rivers overflowed their banks and parts of the central coastal region were buried under mud, the Red Cross said in a report a year later.
    — Uriel Blanco, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
Definition of overflowed

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