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Definition
to have a large number of things — especially things that are moving
- 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. 233.2
- Rain cascaded from the gutters and the downspouts, teemed in puddles, and poured downhill in a stream.p. 232.9
- Caroline went to the edge of the porch and searched up and down the street, through the teeming rain.p. 235.4
There are no more uses of "teem" in The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.
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