seethe

verb \ ˈsēṯẖ \

|Updated on: 7 Aug 2018

Examples: seethe in a Sentence

Definition of seethe

seethed; seething

transitive verb

1 archaic : boil, stew

2 : to soak or saturate in a liquid

intransitive verb

1 archaic : boil

2 a : to be in a state of rapid agitated movement

b : to churn or foam as if boiling

3 : to suffer violent internal excitement

seethe with jealousy

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Examples of seethe in a Sentence

He seethed at his brother's success.
We found ourselves in the middle of a seething crowd.

Recent Examples of seethe from the Web

That’s more than can be said for the white townsfolk, who seethe and tremble from a careful distance.

— justin chang, latimes.com, "Jessica Chastain plays the artist who painted Sitting Bull in the inert history lesson 'Woman Walks Ahead'," 28 June 2018
The dinner itself is a typical holiday get-together: surface good cheer, tensions seething underneath.

— wendy smith, BostonGlobe.com, "Post-Holocaust life follows an unsurprising American trajectory," 8 June 2018
At the time of the attack in July 2014, the battlefield in eastern Ukraine was seething with different armed groups.

— michael birnbaum, Washington Post, "Dutch-led investigators say Russian military missile shot down flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014," 24 May 2018
Community controversy over whether to scrap the Stuart name seethed for several years.

— erik brady, USA TODAY, "A Confederate general makes last stand with high school teams," 27 Apr. 2018
Emily spares Commander Lawrence, but her anger seethes.

— refinery29.com, "The Handmaid's Tale Recap Season 2, Episode 13: The Martha Express," 11 July 2018
Less than 15 years removed from his indelible star turn in the first Patriots Super Bowl victory, Redmond was homeless, living in a garage, seething about his emotional unmooring, fantasizing about his death.

— bob hohler, BostonGlobe.com, "Ailing former Patriots, feeling spurned by the NFL, turn to a clinic with a founder of dubious repute," 28 Apr. 2018
But that's on top off the daily punches that the bureau takes from Trump and his Republican allies on Capitol Hill, and gripes from Democrats still seething over the 2016 election loss.

— marshall cohen, CNN, "6 takeaways from the Justice watchdog report on the Clinton email investigation," 14 June 2018
And Democrats still seethe over his hardball handling of the Supreme Court vacancy after Justice Antonin Scalia died in 2016.

— NBC News, "McConnell's legacy built on winning fights, not friends," 12 June 2018

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Origin and Etymology of seethe

Middle English sethen, from Old English sēothan; akin to Old High German siodan to seethe and probably to Old Lithuanian siausti (it) storms, rages

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First Known Use: before 12th century

in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

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