SEETHE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seethe mean? 

• SEETHE (verb)
  The verb SEETHE has 4 senses:

1. be noisy with activity

2. be in an agitated emotional state

3. foam as if boiling

4. boil vigorously

  Familiarity information: SEETHE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEETHE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they seethe    ... he / she / it seethes   
Past simple: seethed   
Past participle: seethed   
-ing form: seething   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be noisy with activity

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

buzz; hum; seethe

Context example:

This office is buzzing with activity

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

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "seethe"):

pullulate; swarm; teem (be teeming, be abuzz)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The streets seethe with crowds

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be in an agitated emotional state

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

boil; seethe

Context example:

The customer was seething with anger

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

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "seethe"):

bubble over; overflow; spill over (overflow with a certain feeling)

ferment (be in an agitated or excited state)

sizzle (seethe with deep anger or resentment)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue seethe

Sense 3

Meaning:

Foam as if boiling

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

a seething liquid

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

effervesce; fizz; foam; form bubbles; froth; sparkle (become bubbly or frothy or foaming)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The water seethes

Sense 4

Meaning:

Boil vigorously

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

roll; seethe

Context example:

The water rolled

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

boil; churn; moil; roil (be agitated)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The water seethes

 Context examples 

“She can scarce draw clear,” cried Hawtayne, with his eyes from the sail to the seething line of foam.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The long-standing mystery of why Saturn seethes with enormous storms every 30 years may have been solved by scientists.

(Study Explains Saturn's Epic Tantrums, NASA)

The whole great audience seethed and simmered like a boiling pot.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And still the crowd seethed and the cheering swelled.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This seething ocean of lava could feed steam into the atmosphere long after the star has calmed to its current, steady glow, replenishing the planet with water.

(Super-Earth in Habitable Zone, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The boat drew closer and closer, hurling along through the seething green like a thing alive, lifting and sending and uptossing across the huge-backed breakers, or disappearing behind them only to rush into sight again and shoot skyward.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Any attempt at recovering the bodies was absolutely hopeless, and there, deep down in that dreadful caldron of swirling water and seething foam, will lie for all time the most dangerous criminal and the foremost champion of the law of their generation.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Their determined rush carried the prize-fighters before them, the inner ropes snapped like threads, and in an instant the ring was a swirling,’ seething mass of figures, whips and sticks falling and clattering, whilst, face to face, in the middle of it all, so wedged that they could neither advance nor retreat, the smith and the west-countryman continued their long-drawn battle as oblivious of the chaos raging round them as two bulldogs would have been who had got each other by the throat.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)