teem

Meanings

1. To be stocked to overflowing.
2. To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
3. To fall prolifically.
4. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.

1. A downpour (of rain).

1. To empty.
2. To pour (especially with rain)
3. To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
4. To drain the water from (boiled potatoes etc.).

1. To think fit.

Etymology

From Middle English temen (“to bear, to support”), from Anglian Old English tēman (“to give birth”) (West Saxon Old English tīeman), from Proto-West Germanic *taumijan (“to bridle”), from Proto-Germanic *taumijaną, from *taumaz ("bridle", continued in Modern English as team).