Awash vs Teem - What's the difference?
awash | teem |
Washed by the waves or tide; said of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.
* 1904 , , The Sea-Wolf , ch. 39,
(by extension) Covered, overspread.
* 2005 , Chris Ramirez,
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=September 2
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Bulgaria 0-3 England
, work=BBC
To be stocked to overflowing.
* Sir Walter Scott
To be prolific; to abound.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) To empty.
* 1913 ,
*:“Are you sure they’re good lodgings?” she asked.
*:“Yes—yes. Only—it’s a winder when you have to pour your own tea out—an’ nobody to grouse if you team it in your saucer and sup it up. It somehow takes a’ the taste out of it.”
To pour (especially with rain)
To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
As an adjective awash
is washed by the waves or tide; said of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc, when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.As a verb teem is
to be stocked to overflowing or teem can be (archaic) to empty or teem can be (obsolete|rare) to think fit.awash
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The deck was continually awash with the sea which came inboard over the rail and through the scuppers.
2nd find excites museum diggers," The Arizona Republic , 26 Aug,
- The Valley landscape was more awash with greenery some 11,000 years ago.
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teem
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , whence also team.Verb
(en verb)- his mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.}}
- If she must teem , / Create her child of spleen.