All 3 Uses of
teem
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- They'd spent hours once, learning this idiom, working with a poster Caroline made of angry clouds, cats and dogs teeming from the sky.†
p. 233.2teeming = filled (has many)
- Caroline went to the edge of the porch and searched up and down the street, through the teeming rain.†
p. 235.4 *
- Rain cascaded from the gutters and the downspouts, teemed in puddles, and poured downhill in a stream.†
p. 232.9
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) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
to pour out, In archaic literature, teem can mean to give birth to.