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UK
/sˈiːð/
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[ US /ˈsið/ ]
[ US /ˈsið/ ]
VERB
-
be in an agitated emotional state
The customer was seething with anger -
foam as if boiling
a seething liquid -
be noisy with activity
This office is buzzing with activity -
boil vigorously
The liquid was seething
The water rolled
How To Use seethe In A Sentence
- The harbor of the naval base seethed with tremendous activity.
- Why oh why oh why did the Yankees think it was wise to pay $82.5 million to this 34-year-old pitcher, who has proven himself so unreliable and ineffective that the mere mention of his name causes unflappable New Yorkers to seethe? Sympathy for A.J. Is Not Tolerated Here
- She grinned derisively while I seethed with rage.
- Chekhovian memories also abound, adding cobwebs to the old manse in Ballybeg in and outside of which most of the action seethes.
- He boiled tea for the customers in an enormous, pitted stainless-steel kettle, watching with furious concentration as the water seethed, overspilled, and sizzled into the gas flame. THE WHITE TIGER
- And they're so opposite, of course, some of them that as if their oppositeness and the conflict between them makes this cauldron a very turbulent cauldron, makes it bubble and seethe. CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2001
- Eerie and harrowing, the film seethes with barely suppressed ferocity.
- Philip led the way, and they entered the mill, where the warning bells were ringing to give notice that the corn was flowing down rightly; and the mill-hoppers kept on "ruttle, ruttle;" the water hissed, seethed, and rushed under their feet; the millstones rumbled round and round; and there on the top of the sacks, with which the place was half filled, sat the two great white cats belonging to the miller, fast asleep; while in Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home
- With Skeletons, set for release in the first quarter of 2010, Hawthorne Heights has moved on, aided in part by a new label affiliation, Wind-Up Records, home of Creed, Seether and Evanescence. Tucson Weekly
- The grey ocean seethed beneath them.