Teem

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–verb (used without object) 

1. to abound or swarm; be prolific or fertile (usually fol. by with). 

2. Obsolete. to be or become pregnant; bring forth young.  



–verb (used with object) 

3. Obsolete. to produce (offspring).  



—Related forms

teemer, noun 



—Synonyms 

1. overflow, brim, overrun, bristle.





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team (n., v.), teem (vv.) 

   

Of these homophones, team as noun is "a pair of draft animals (役用動物)" or "a group of people forming one side in a contest or game," and the verb team means "to form such a group"; frequently it combines with up, as in We teamed (up) with a transfer student. 



Team player, meaning "one who cooperates well with teammates," began as sports jargon (行話;黑話) but is now Standard in almost all contexts. The figurative use of team in commerce and other activities to suggest unity when it may be hard to achieve is becoming a cliché: Our sales force is a winning team. 

   

One verb teem means "to bear many offspring, to abound in or swarm with," as in That swamp teemed with mosquitoes.



 A second verb teem means "to empty or pour out" and is much used in the cliché with the present participle 



a teeming [rain]. 





   

Consider an early scene. Footmen for King Carlos IV (Randy Quaid, and very good, too) throw an animal corpse in a field to attract vultures. 



Then the king shoots them, like pigeons. He also bags some rabbits, but Maria Luisa thinks she'd prefer the vultures for dinner. Other set pieces show the extraordinary cruelty of the dungeons, the obscene magnificence of the royal residences, the bawdy (猥褻的) of the taverns, the boldness of the bordellos (妓院) and 



streets teeming with life [in the midst] of death.





see 

bristle engulf bodega



permeate 

Bright sunshine permeated the room.

Cynicism permeated his report.



brim

Brimming [with] the subversive wit which characterizes all of Buñuel's finest work, That Obscure Object of Desire takes satiric aim at a decadent, decaying society riddled by political unrest and moral bankruptcy.