: to experience the emergence of one's teeth through the gums
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The baby is starting to teethe.
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But proponents insist those are teething defects in a nascent technology — and fixable.—Steve Lohr, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023 Babies can teethe on it.—Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2022 There is the Infant Phenomenon, who strains to pass herself off as such in her family’s theatrical troupe despite having teethed several years ago.—Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2020 The problems experienced this week are unlikely to be teething problems either as motorcycles and tricycles have, overtime, become mainstay features of Lagos’ transport system due to gaps that exist.—Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa, 6 Feb. 2020 See All Example Sentences for teethe
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