Meaning & use
teeming
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Full of a large number of things or people moving around; swarming.
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The night market was teeming with vendors, tourists, and the smell of street food.
A single drop of pond water can be teeming with microscopic organisms.
A note on using this word
Almost always followed by "with," as in "teeming with life."
Words with a similar meaning
swarmingcrawlingbrimming
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Words with an opposite meaning
emptydeserted
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