teem down
teem with rain BrE

It teemed down, so back came a soaked Charlie and 1265-X.

The rain teemed down with biblical fury.

The mountains shook to their roots, and everywhere avalanches teemed down to splash into the seething ocean.

Insects teemed down from Fortress Crag, two kilometres away.

From high on his right, a tide of misshapen bodies teemed down the slope, dislodging a small avalanche of gravel and scree as they came.

Nowadays little rain fell along the roadway, although it still teemed down at the rate of three hundred inches a year upon the pristine forests only a few miles away.

In spring the winds do sport and play, And rain can teem down anyday, While autumn oft is misty gray, My friend hear what I say.

However, it was impossible to open the bags and check the contents for damp, for the rain still teemed down out of the low grey sky in long thin silver lances.

Turbaned Moors, tall ebony-black Wolof and the lighter-skinned Fula tribesmen of the Sahel, faces marked by ritual scars, teemed down the gangplank.

Totally sheltered as the vitriolic stuff teemed down, I walked swiftly away - on a line provided by Posi, watching me through the ship ceptors that she had temporarily borrowed by means of her call-beam.

Meanwhile, the muscle, beer and faith of the Irish ghetto, with clusters of Germans clinging together, teemed down on Front Street, its men stationed as laborers and in the long-forgotten jobs of carman and cooper.

As the Sprite came about, Mansur peered across at the other ship, waiting for her to extinguish her lantern or show some sign that she had taken heed of the warning, but at that instant the thunderclouds burst open and the rain teemed down.

As the rain teemed down in Suwon, it was the South Americans who adapted more quickly to the soggy pitch, pinning their opponents back from the off and taking the lead on 13 minutes thanks to a fine strike from distance by Reimond Manco.