Both Uses
teem
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- They were so different, these six: the whooping young Texas cowboy astride his white horse; the watchful Arizona Indian on his reservation; the happy-go-lucky Kentucky hillbilly skinny-dipping in the Licking River; the serious Wisconsin small-towner walking with his third-grade sweetheart under the shade trees; the handsome New Hampshire smoothie checking his profile in the drugstore window; the sturdy Czech immigrant playing his French horn in the teeming Pennsylvania steel mill town.†
Chpt 2.teeming = filled (has many)
- Each came of age in a kind of living Thomas Hart Benton mural: a teeming workers' hive that typified the sprawl and belch of American industry in the 1930's.†
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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.