SEETHE Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

seethe

verb

ˈsēṯẖ

Definition of seethe

as in to swirl

to be in a state of violent rolling motion the water seethed with schools of feeding piranha

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as in to rage

to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger she seethed at the very thought of the staff's staggering incompetence

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Recent Examples of seethe Tom Rhys Harries seethes as Matt Hagen, a pretty boy who loses his looks only to regain them from an experimental procedure that makes a jumble of his psyche. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2026 Villains dating hot blondes has the traditional golf journalists seething while SeanJo, myself and Nightcaps legend Zach Dean sit back and just smile. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026 In the very human-scale role of Chef, all that glamour and pageantry seethes just beneath the skin. — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026 Ser Criston Cole, more than perhaps any other character in this story, is seething with resentment. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for seethe

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Verb

But up to this point, DIIV have endured—thrived, even—because of their refusal to capitulate to the industry winds that swirled around them.

— Larry Fitzmaurice, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2026
Conversations began to swirl in Newsom's circle following Tennessee’s botched execution of Christa Pike, The New York Times reported.

— Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of swirl

Verb

There’s just enough teasing to allow the Elriel and the Gwynriel wars to keep raging for a few months.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2026
Elsewhere, the war rages on A Russian drone strike on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight wounded five people, including a 4-year-old child, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said.

— Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of rage

Verb

That churning could explain why classic models, which assume that the ISM is in a tranquil equilibrium, don’t quite seem to match reality.

— Perri Thaler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2026
To make New York-style bagels like George’s, the dough is churned in a mixer, kneaded by hand, and cold-fermented.

— HubSpot, HubSpot, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of churn

Verb

These were extraordinary, the shrimp steamed until the meat, lightly perfumed with ginger, snapped under the tooth, and the pleated wrapper held the right amount of chew.

— Christopher Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2026
Hyderabadi Chicken Dum Biryani — steamed under a pastry crust and flavored with seasonings blended in India by Adi’s mother.

— Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of steam

Verb

Plus, the sauce cooks while the pasta boils, putting this firmly in weeknight-dinner territory.

— Rachel Gurjar, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Oct. 2026
A lot of uncertainty remains in the lift capacity of Starship, as well as in how much cryogenic methane and liquid oxygen will boil off in orbit and how efficient the process of transferring propellants from one ship to another will be.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of boil

Verb

And, like the Raptor engines that power another SpaceX launcher, the giant Starship, Clydesdale will burn liquid oxygen and liquid methane, a combo known as methalox.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Residents evacuated as officials decided three days later to blow open five rail cars and burn the vinyl chloride inside.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of burn

Verb

Again, that hopefully will yield a debut album that fully captures her generation’s campy disenchantment and roiling vulnerability.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
However, his remarks Friday at a news conference in Anchorage offered the first public acknowledgment of that inquiry, which has roiled the state’s tight Senate race in the final days before the vote.

— Jeremy Roebuck, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of roil

Verb

It's been a rough season for the Terrapins, who recently underwent a coaching change, and that's certainly not going to have kids storming the gates at SECU Stadium.

— Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Nov. 2026
Days later, assailants stormed Moscow’s Crocus City Hall venue and killed more than 140 people.

— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2026

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