Synonyms of seethed

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• swirled
• churned
• boiled
• whirled
• spun
• roiled
• stirred
• reeled
• moiled
• agitated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• subsided
• abated
• calmed

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• raged
• steamed
• stormed
• burned
• boiled
• fumed
• shook
• sizzled
• rankled
• foamed
• agitated
• ranted
• saw red
• raved
• bristled
• smoldered
• fulminated
• inflamed
• convulsed
• stewed
• roiled
• chafed
• fretted
• flared (up)

Example Sentences

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