The difference between Increase and Teem

When used as verbs, increase means (of a quantity, etc.) to become larger or greater, whereas teem means to be stocked to overflowing.


Increase is also noun with the meaning: an amount by which a quantity is increased.

check bellow for the other definitions of Increase and Teem

  1. Increase as a verb (intransitive):

    (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.

    Examples:

    "His rage only increased when I told him of the lost money."

  2. Increase as a verb (transitive):

    To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.

  3. Increase as a verb:

    To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.

  4. Increase as a verb (astronomy, intransitive):

    To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.

    Examples:

    "The Moon increases."

  1. Increase as a noun:

    An amount by which a quantity is increased.

  2. Increase as a noun:

    For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger

  3. Increase as a noun (knitting):

    The creation of one or more new stitches; see .

  1. Teem as a verb:

    To be stocked to overflowing.

  2. Teem as a verb:

    To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.

  3. Teem as a verb:

    To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.

  1. Teem as a verb (archaic):

    To empty.

  2. Teem as a verb:

    To pour (especially with rain)

  3. Teem as a verb:

    To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.

  1. Teem as a verb (obsolete, rare):

    To think fit.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek G. Gifford"