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Deemed vs Teemed - What's the difference?

deemed | teemed |

As verbs the difference between deemed and teemed

is that deemed is past tense of deem while teemed is past tense of teem.

deemed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (deem)

  • deem

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To judge; pass judgement on; sentence; doom.
  • (obsolete) To adjudge; decree.
  • (obsolete) To dispense (justice); administer (law).
  • (ambitransitive) To think, judge, or hold as an opinion; decide or believe on consideration; suppose.
  • * Emerson
  • And deemest thou as those who pore, / With aged eyes, short way before?
  • To hold in belief or estimation; adjudge as a conclusion; regard as being; evaluate according to one's beliefs; account.
  • She deemed his efforts insufficient.
  • To have or hold as a (personal) opinion; judge; think.
  • Synonyms

    * judge * consider; see also

    Derived terms

    * * * * * *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An opinion; judgement; surmise.
  • Anagrams

    * * * ----

    teemed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (teem)
  • Anagrams

    *

    teem

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , whence also team.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be stocked to overflowing.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • his mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy
  • To be prolific; to abound.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
  • * Shakespeare
  • If she must teem , / Create her child of spleen.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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.
  • Etymology 3

    See tame (adjective) and compare beteem.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, rare) To think fit.
  • Anagrams

    * meet * mete ----