seethes

verb

present tense third-person singular of seethe
1
as in churns
to be in a state of violent rolling motion the water seethed with schools of feeding piranha

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2
as in rages
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 seethes As Seth seethes about his separation from his home country (and the family fortune), Arias interweaves a backstory involving assassination, undisclosed parentage and (as the title suggests) the perilous creatures slithering across the landscape. — Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026 Trump seethes with hatred and erupts in volcanic fury to denounce, demonize, disparage and threaten anyone who refuses to support his increasingly irrational and harmful proposals and actions. — Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2026 The river tumbles and seethes through 278 miles of Grand Canyon National Park, taking its geologic time in carving a trench now deeper than a mile. — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025 This is why Dijon’s language works best as sound, not narrative—his rangy, raspy voice seethes and triumphs, mocks and threatens; there’s no world in which his polygonal perspective can be discerned from a lyric sheet. — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025 Cheryl Conrad no longer seethes with the frustration that threatened to overwhelm her in 2006. — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seethes
  1. churns
  2. rages
  3. swirls
  4. steams
  5. boils
  6. burns
  7. roils
  8. storms
Verb
  • For all of Jaws' carnage, nothing churns the gut quite like the death of local boy Alex Kintner, played by Jeffrey Voorhees.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 June 2026
  • First, Two Scoops Creamery uses a high butter fat content and churns the ice cream directly in the Plaza Midwood store.
    — Tristan Graziano, Charlotte Observer, 4 June 2026
Definition of churns
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  • All eyes on jewelry As the jewelry supercycle rages on, the category is increasingly showing up during Couture Week.
    — Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 10 July 2026
  • Molloy rages to his film crew, and Lestat’s duplicity plants a wedge between the vamps.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 23 June 2026
Definition of rages
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  • The galaxy's heart shines brightly in the image, with gleaming rays of light radiating from its center while gas and dust swirls around.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 19 May 2026
  • Longoria’s approach to the wild fervour that continually swirls around the Velodrome was to try to harness it by hiring comparably combustible coaches like Jorge Sampaoli, Igor Tudor, Gennaro Gattuso and De Zerbi.
    — Tom Williams, New York Times, 17 May 2026
Definition of swirls
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  • Lucien Laviscount enters the scene and steams it up as Hot Guy who fandangoes with Laila and then upends the apple cart later on.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
  • During that time, the steak essentially steams.
    — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 15 May 2026
Definition of steams
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  • Mariscos Cortez is a seafood restaurant with flavors from the coast of Mexico that will serve a small menu of ceviche, aguachiles and Jalisco-style shrimp boils.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 July 2026
  • The river dropped 60 feet between boulders in a series of falls and continued downstream in a dangerous half mile of holes and boils.
    — John Todd, Outdoor Life, 9 July 2026
Definition of boils
Verb
  • That is what happens when a society burns effigies long enough; eventually, somebody mistakes a person for one.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • And those diets are tailored by position since a midfielder, who may run more than seven miles in a match, burns more calories than a goalkeeper.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
Definition of burns
Verb
  • His statement comes the day before Britain marks the 10th anniversary of its vote to leave the European Union, a decision that still roils the country’s economy and politics.
    — Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026
  • His statement came the day before Britain marks the 10th anniversary of its vote to leave the European Union, a decision that still roils the country’s economy and politics.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 June 2026
Definition of roils
Verb
  • Sharon Stone storms the runway at the Vetements Spring Summer 2027 fashion show during Paris Men's Fashion Week on June 26.
    — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
  • In a flashback to the Italian inn, Lestat storms in on Gabriella sleeping with a rando, having heard her through the walls.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 29 June 2026
Definition of storms

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