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say it: TEE-ming
teeming is an adjective meaning "abundantly filled with especially living things". It carries one recorded sense.
abundantly filled with especially living things
“the Third World's teeming millions”
“the teeming boulevard”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for teeming come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.