TEETHE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teethe mean? 

• TEETHE (verb)
  The verb TEETHE has 1 sense:

1. grow teeth; cut the baby teeth

  Familiarity information: TEETHE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEETHE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they teethe    ... he / she / it teethes   
Past simple: teethed   
Past participle: teethed   
-ing form: teething   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grow teeth; cut the baby teeth

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

The little one is teething now

Hypernyms (to "teethe" is one way to...):

acquire; develop; get; grow; produce (come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

teething (the eruption through the gums of baby teeth)

 Context examples 

But by-and-by, when the teething worry was over and the idols went to sleep at proper hours, leaving Mamma time to rest, she began to miss John, and find her workbasket dull company, when he was not sitting opposite in his old dressing gown, comfortably scorching his slippers on the fender.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)