seethed

verb

past tense of seethe
1
as in swirled
to be in a state of violent rolling motion the water seethed with schools of feeding piranha

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2
as in raged
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 seethed When Burgess put both their names on the sign outside their Bridgeport, Connecticut, workshop, Fuller seethed. — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2026 Despite performing alongside the Sailors, Burney quietly seethed over the way Guzmán treated the band, and Fernández in particular. — Longreads, 5 Mar. 2026 For the next several years, Hostetler seethed on the bench. — Tim Rohan, NBC news, 24 Jan. 2026 Sean Payton stood behind a lectern in a small room deep inside Levi’s Stadium back in August and seethed. — Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026 Mace seethed at the Ethics panel’s move. — Emily Brooks, The Hill, 20 Nov. 2025 His own work seethed with the gritty vernacular of the street, evoking the Sturm und Drang of the Midwestern metropolis. — News Desk, Artforum, 23 Oct. 2025 The result was a gonzo spaghetti Western that seethed with anti-colonialist sentiment and won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025 Many also seethed over the fact that some of these same teams had memorialized George Floyd, the Black man murdered on video by Derek Chauvin, then a Minneapolis police officer, in 2020, whose death set off a nationwide wave of street demonstrations. — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seethed
  1. swirled
  2. raged
  3. churned
  4. steamed
  5. boiled
  6. stormed
  7. whirled
  8. burned
Verb
  • Over the weekend, rumors swirled that Anthropic was on the cusp of announcing that one of its AI models had cracked one of the Millennium Prize Problems.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Bethany Donaphin Head of WNBA league operations As rumors swirled about Engelbert’s enture, insiders around the league have been mentioning Donaphin as a potential replacement.
    — Chantel Jennings, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of swirled
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  • Another fire raged at the complex just months later in November 2024.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026
  • As the fire raged, mother and son used garden hoses to defend their property as nearby dwellings were torched.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of raged
Verb
  • The stock churned in a wide range all spring and summer, unable to generate any conviction above that ceiling.
    — Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Gelato is churned more slowly than ice cream, giving it a dense, almost taffy-like chewy texture.
    — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of churned
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  • Their crabs are steamed, frozen and packed into boxes to be shipped to Sri Lanka, where workers remove the meat by hand.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The sweet alliums are cooked with cilantro and extra-virgin olive oil until tender, then tucked into thin dumpling wrappers that are folded into half-moons and steamed for exactly 10 minutes — any longer and the dough could break.
    — Warren Rojas, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of steamed
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  • The agitation of the team’s fanbase boiled to the surface this summer.
    — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Super-fresh corn on the cob hardly needs to be cooked, let alone boiled.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of boiled
Verb
  • Madison Keys was serving at 5-0 in the third set before Zheng Qinwen stormed back for a 1-6, 7-6(3) 7-5 win.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • With Michigan stealing a 13-12 win over the Broncos in dramatic fashion, the fans who stuck around in The Big House stormed the field to celebrate.
    — Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of stormed
Verb
  • Melissa Wegman, a Democratic retiree who is also from Bakersfield, said she was shocked when the pump recently whirled to $128 to fill the tank on her SUV.
    — Mike Catalini, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Throughout all this chaos, the Fleetwood Mac touring machine whirled on.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2026
Definition of whirled
Verb
  • Thompson added that wildfires have burned the area in recent years, leading him to believe that rates for home insurance were unaffordable.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Siri Hustvedt, for instance, had written about the women who were burned as witches in that part of Norway, far above the Arctic Circle.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of burned

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