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Steemed vs Teemed - What's the difference?

steemed | teemed |

As verbs the difference between steemed and teemed

is that steemed is (steem) while teemed is (teem).

steemed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (steem)

  • steem

    English

    Etymology 1

    Alternative forms

    * stem

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A gleam of light; a flame.
  • Etymology 2

    Aphetic form of esteem.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Value.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To value, esteem.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.10:
  • *:His life he steemed dearer than his friend […].
  • 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 ----