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   teem

   /tēm/

   verb

   • 1. (of water, especially rain) pour down; fall heavily: "with the rain teeming down at the manor, Italy seemed a long way off"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old Norse tœma ‘to empty’, from tómr ‘empty’. The original sense was ‘to empty’, specifically ‘to drain liquid from, pour liquid out’; the current sense (originally dialect) dates from the early 19th century.

   Scrabble Points: 6

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   • E

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   • E

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   • M

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