seethed; seething
1
: to suffer violent internal excitement
seethe with jealousy
2
a
: to be in a state of rapid agitated movement
b
: to churn or foam as if boiling
3
archaic
: boil
: a state of seething : ebullition
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Verb
He seethed at his brother's success.
We found ourselves in the middle of a seething crowd.
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Mel Buer, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025
Bergvall immediately protested to referee Andy Madley, while Postecoglou was seething on the touchline.
—Jay Harris, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
Mannequin Pussy’s album seethes and howls with desire: desire for love, connection, control; desire to be human; desire to be a dog; desire for desire itself.
—Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
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Verb
Right now, Los Angeles seethes with the collective trauma of a metro area of millions buffeted about by hurricane-force winds that began last week.
—Mel Buer, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025
Bergvall immediately protested to referee Andy Madley, while Postecoglou was seething on the touchline.
—Jay Harris, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
Noun
Not ambition to succeed on the world’s terms (though that asserted its own maddening static) but ambition to find forms for the seethe of rage, remembrance, and wild vitality that seemed, unaccountably, like sound inside me, demanding language but prelinguistic, somehow.
—Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
Mannequin Pussy’s album seethes and howls with desire: desire for love, connection, control; desire to be human; desire to be a dog; desire for desire itself.
—Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Seethe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seethe. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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