All 5 Uses
teem
in
The Hunger Games
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- From this place, we are invisible but have a clear view of the valley, which is teeming with summer life, greens to gather, roots to dig, fish iridescent in the sunlight.
p. 9.1 *teeming = filled (with a large number of something)
- Although, against the sterile bandage, the hem of his undershorts looks filthy and teeming with contagion.†
p. 258.6teeming = filled (has many)
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- This teaming up with the Career wolf pack to hunt down the rest of us.†
p. 161.8
- I spend the night half-sitting, half-lying next to Peeta, refreshing the bandage, and trying not to dwell on the fact that by teaming up with him, I've made myself far more vulnerable than when I was alone.†
p. 263.2 *
- And he's so surly, it's hard to imagine anyone teaming up with him.†
p. 306.4
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.