All 3 Uses
teem
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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- Somewhere in the recumbent solitudes, the motionless but teeming millions of books, lost in two dozen turns right, three dozen turns left, down aisles, through doors, toward dead ends, locked doors, half-empty shelves, somewhere in the literary soot of Dickens's London, or Dostoevsky's Moscow or the steppes beyond, somewhere in the vellumed dust of atlas or Geographic, sneezes pent but set like traps, the boys crouched, stood, lay sweating a cool and constant brine.†
Part 2teeming = filled (has many)
- The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth.†
Part 3 *teemed = was filled (had many)
- They looked like father and son long apart, passionately met, embraced, yet more embraced, as the man lifted his wounded hand to gently touch the stricken face as the crowd, the teem, of illustrations shivered and flew now this way and that in microscopic forays quickly abandoned.†
Part 3teem = are full (with many)
Definitions:
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(1)
(teem) have a large number of things -- especially things that are moving
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) to pour out, In archaic literature, teem can mean to give birth to.