Infest vs Teem - What's the difference?
infest | teem |
To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers
(pathology, of a parasite) To invade a host plant or animal
To be stocked to overflowing.
* Sir Walter Scott
To be prolific; to abound.
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, 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 verbs the difference between infest and teem
is that infest is to inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers while teem is to be stocked to overflowing or teem can be (archaic) to empty or teem can be (obsolete|rare) to think fit.As an adjective infest
is (obsolete) mischievous; hurtful; harassing.infest
English
Verb
(en verb)- Insects are infesting my basement!
Synonyms
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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.