SEETHED Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

seethed

verb

past tense of seethe

as in swirled

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

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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

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The gold confetti that swirled around MetLife Stadium in New York on Sunday as Spain celebrated winning the World Cup had yet been cleaned up when the fight over the next tournament already began.

— Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Headlines from around the country swirled about how the lengthy US government shutdown left local municipalities without the necessary funds to prepare for millions of people coming to the US.

— Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 20 July 2026

Definition of swirled

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In Spain, several fires raged earlier this month, with a major wildfire near Madrid, and another in the country's Castellón region, forcing several tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.

— Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 31 July 2026
Blazes in touristic Mugla and Antalya and elsewhere raged overnight as hot weather and strong winds gripped the region.

— CBS News, CBS News, 30 July 2026

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Not to say that milk doesn’t have a summer purpose—churned, say, into ice cream, or blended into a milkshake—but to most people, these frozen treats are the beginning and end of the list.

— Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 25 July 2026
In the eastern Pacific Ocean, Hurricane Fausto churned far from land Wednesday.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026

Definition of churned

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Even if eggs are boiled or poached, pairing them with healthy fats like avocado or nuts can provide the fat needed to support vitamin D absorption.

— Morgan Pearson, Verywell Health, 26 July 2026
In her album, Jenny Sweet portrays them as mothers angry at how humans have warmed their waters, turning them into lobsters in a pot being boiled alive by climate change.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 July 2026

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Key Background The White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April ended abruptly after a gunman stormed a security checkpoint and exchanged fire with Secret Service agents.

— Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Crowds of people—including the relatives of patients—stormed Ituri’s Nyakunde Hospital, throwing stones and damaging its perimeter fence on July 15, according to Reuters.

— Rebecca Schneid, Time, 22 July 2026

Definition of stormed

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Dancers from Parsons whirled around in their stocking feet, finding their way through a crowd that included Astrid Hill, Chris and Christina Cuomo, and Lisa and Richard Perry.

— Vanessa Grigoriadis, Vanity Fair, 21 July 2026
There are shirts being whirled all around me as disbelieving fans soak in the celebrations with their squad.

— Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 15 July 2026

Definition of whirled

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The sky burnt orange overnight into Monday in Sotillo de la Adrada, in Spain’s central-western province of Ávila.

— Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 27 July 2026
For nearly 50 years, illustrator and comic book creator Bill Sienkiewicz has burned, splattered and slashed his way across the page with his expressionist approach to visual storytelling.

— Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026

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