All 4 Uses of
teem
in
Harry Potter (#5) and the Order of the Phoenix
- The Forbidden Forest was teeming with the kind of creatures most likely to get Hagrid the sack.†
Chpt 21 *
- Here, he began to pace up and down, past the two beds and Phineas Nigellus's empty picture frame, his brain teeming and seething with questions and ever more dreadful ideas.†
Chpt 23
- Snape staggered — his wand flew upwards, away from Harry —and suddenly Harry's mind was teeming with memories that were not his: a hook-nosed man was shouting at a cowering woman, while a small dark-haired boy cried in a corner… a greasy-haired teenager sat alone in a dark bedroom, pointing his wand at the ceiling, shooting down flies… a girl was laughing as a scrawny boy tried to mount a bucking broomstick — 'ENOUGH!'†
Chpt 26
- He wheeled around and strode blindly from the hospital wing into the teeming corridor where he stood, buffeted by the crowd, panic expanding inside him like poison gas so that his head swam and he could not think what to do… Ron and Hermione, said a voice in his head.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(teem) to have a large number of things -- especially things that are moving