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Definition
to have a large number of things — especially things that are moving
- Most of the county, it seemed, was there: the hall was teeming with slicked-up country people.p. 343.9
teeming = filled (with a large number of something)
- Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies.p. 10.1
- Backstage, Cecil and I found the narrow hallway teeming with people: adults in homemade three-corner hats, Confederate caps, Spanish-American War hats, and World War helmets.p. 345.2
teemed = was filled (with a large number of something)
teeming = filled (with a large number of something)
There are no more uses of "teem" in To Kill a Mockingbird.
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