seething 1 of 2

present participle of seethe
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as in swirling
to be in a state of violent rolling motion the water seethed with schools of feeding piranha

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seething

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adjective

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Recent Examples of seething
Verb
Kennedy Center director Richard Grenell has now delivered a seething response to the performers’ plan. Jack Dunn, Variety, 8 May 2025 This helps explain why Gabbard elicits a seething hatred from people like Frum, Clinton, and Nichols. Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Adjective
Coursing through all of these elements is a seething anger at authoritarianism. Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024 Cox and his team were brought in by a handful of wealthy Colorado ranch owners who were still seething over the ballot measure to introduce wolves that passed in 2020 by less than one percent. Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for seething
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seething
Verb
  • Ironically, though, this comes as rumors of a possible feud between them have been swirling.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In the wake of an $8 billion merger between Paramount Global and Skydance, which closed in early August, rumors began swirling that Weiss was being courted to take over CBS News.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Twenty years’ worth of imagery captured by two orbiters circling Mars has revealed raging winds on the red planet.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, in the wake of the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, politics has become increasingly polarized, with debates about free speech raging.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Agrawal and her team studied ionic liquids — salts that are liquid at sub-boiling temperatures (below 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or 100 degrees Celsius) — as a potential hospitable environment for life.
    Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
Verb
  • Mischief in the mind of Cole Martin, the defensive back, moonlighted as a magician and snatched the direct snap before darting through a crease and churning ahead for a trick of a first down.
    Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Get your brain churning and start your morning by testing out your knowledge.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Its most famous dish is its roasted pork bun ($3), which is enjoyed best while steaming hot.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Plus, the material is wrinkle-free, which will save you from steaming it in the mornings.
    Rylee Johnston, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • While the rest of his body was a meandering ghost, his eyes were molten rage-arrows piercing the other people onstage.
    Betty Gilpin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
  • To physically produce this new, strong, small-precipitate alloy, the team realized 3D printing would be the way to go instead of traditional metal casting, in which molten liquid aluminum is poured into a mold and is left to cool and harden.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Perhaps more than any other individual in the whirling sphere of fashion, Margareta van den Bosch catapulted high-low dressing.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Here, the tarantella is by turns gleeful and demonic — a frantic dance of the doomed, whirling through a mist of contemporary clangor.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Israel-Hamas war began after Hamas terrorists launched a surprise attack on southern Israel, storming army bases, farming communities and an outdoor music festival, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, including women, children and older adults.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The live stream opened with Chalamet sitting in what appeared to be a giant lottery ball blower, with ping-pong balls storming around him.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025

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“Seething.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seething. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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