teem

Definitions

A downpour (of rain).

Equivalents

Examples

“... a teem of rain⟳ that poured down so copiously it ran in surface streamlets over the plains. I may literally say⟳ we came to anchor this evening in a sheet of water, the prairie, as far as we could see⟳, presenting the same aqueous[…]”

“... under the great teems of rain⟳, and houldin' up the grandest new green umbrella ever you laid eyes on. Fine it was entirely, and an iligant body I was consaitin' meself, goodness forgive⟳ me.”

“... a teem of rain⟳ and the geranium tremens.”

“... a teem of rain⟳, and blast of wind; and Katie felt a terrible, deep cold, as if it had got down into her bones and she would never be warm again.”

CEFR level