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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This revelation comes shortly after rumors swirled about Beatrice and Eugenie potentially losing their royal titles.

— Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 26 Sep. 2026
Beaches emptied out and dark clouds swirled above choppy seas, while Mexican authorities temporarily suspended classes in a number of areas on Tuesday.

— DESIREE BROOKS, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of swirled

Verb

By and large, though, the institution maintained bipartisan support as the guardian of America’s history, ingenuity and natural heritage, even as political polarization spread and culture wars raged.

— Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 24 Sep. 2026
Hours later, the world began shutting down as the COVID-19 pandemic raged.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of raged

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Alongside, another person whisks over a tall, yolk-yellow block of butter, churned in-house for 48 hours and formed into the craggy shape of one of Rodin’s intentionally incomplete sculptures.

— Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
The stock was a pandemic darling that cratered, went through a messy acquisition saga, had activist investors at the door, and churned sideways while the rest of biotech tried to find its footing.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of churned

Verb

Zverev served for the match in the second set but double-faulted to hand De Minaur a break and the Australian stormed back into it.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
Authorities said key fugitives in the case include Dimitri Hérard, ex-head of security at Haiti's National Palace, who escaped two years ago after a powerful gang federation stormed Haiti's two biggest prisons.

— EVENS SANON, Arkansas Online, 21 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

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Warehouses full of fish, salt, sugar and spices, stores of corn and hay, as well as horses and cattle that could not be rescued, were burned.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
The following year, the Bridge fire forced the town’s evacuation and burned 13 homes.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026

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