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teethe
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
teethe
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
teething troublesBritish English (= small problems that you have when you first start doing a new job or using a new system )
▪ There were a lot of teething troubles in the first year.
teething troubles
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
teethe

early 15c., probably from an unrecorded Old English verb *teþan, from toþ (see tooth). Related: Teethed; teething.

Wiktionary
teethe

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To grow teeth. 2 (context intransitive English) To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth.

WordNet
teethe

v. grow teeth; cut the baby teeth; "The little one is teething now"

Usage examples of "teethe".

The blackdeath used its tiny hands to maneuver the severed limb around, the way an eggling might play with a teething rod, then at last it dropped the remainsbones slick with blood, tendons and remnants of flesh dangling from them.

Angel came back to the cider house to see how the teething was going, Baby Rose was not the only Rose with a pacifier stuck in her mouth.

Doc, who had just finished filling a prescription, handed a customer a bottle of paregoric for her baby who was teething.

But even setting that aside, the brutal, overriding truth was that Chinas economy was based on exports of everything from guns to teething rings.

Danni put something that looked like a giant teething ring with a black eyeball in the center onto the repulsor pallet.

With each trip to town, she brought home a few more items for the baby until she had a supply of little undershirts, socks, sleepsuits, and newborn outfits along with the requisite bibs, rattles, teething rings, baby powder, diapers, and assorted baby items, all of it augmented by purchases Jessy had made.

It is not easy to stop there, when there are other stories in the volume to talk about, and I remember so well every birth pang, every cranky teething through the typewriter.

Life had been so simple, he thought, when all he'd had to worry about was diaper rash and teething.

One of the best remedies for diarrhoeas of teething children, due to poor assimilation of food.

If pipes were substitutes for feeding bottles at moments of regression into infancy, then a B-stick was a kind of teething ring.

I’ve nursed five children, and buried three: and the one I loved the best of all, and tended through croup, and teething, and measles, and hooping-cough, and brought up with foreign masters, regardless of expense, and with accomplishments at Minerva House—which I never had when I was a girl—when I was too glad to honour my father and mother, that I might live long in the land, and to be useful, and not to mope all day in my room and act the fine lady—says I’m a murderess.

We had a few teething troubles in the butchery department: Ace used her lightgun on the first one, and it exploded with a surprised expression upon its face, singeing my eyebrows.

The prince was a computer genius some said he had thought in binary codes in his creche and teethed on chips--and when he was barely out of his teens, he had mastered the use of the Josephson junctions in what he termed an "idiot proof" applica tion to regulate with complete safety the vast flow of skycars and drones in and out of major Linear depots and over densely populated areas.

Kindan remembered that watch-whers teethed, not unlike human babies, and with the same pain and discomfort.

The worshippers, gleamingly teethed and boldly coloured, were stained glass enough.