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seething

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verb

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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Recent Examples of seething
Adjective
The play examines what happens when seething anger is turned inward, as well as the desire for reconciliation. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023 While there was a seething fury, reckless abandon, and dark humor present in their work, there was also sincerity, earnestness, and focused artistic ambition. Daniel Dylan Wray, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2023
Verb
The usually calm German was clearly seething in a short interview with DAZN Espana following the full-time whistle on Saturday night. Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024 The work begins with soft, airy slipping, the sense of something quietly seething and forming. Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for seething
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seething
Adjective
  • 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
  • If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
Verb
  • Then the truck flipped over, sending the workers into the raging water.
    Travis Loller, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Here is the list of fighters that gained immortality as a result of this raging inferno.
    Interesting Engineering, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The core, which is made up of molten iron, generates electrical currents.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Recent research, however, has proposed a promising answer: the molten Martian core likely generated a magnetic field that only covered the Red Planet’s southern hemisphere.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Instead, its vivid, expressive prose also explores how aesthetic beauty can cover stomach-churning abuse, while Lin’s rich literary allusions reveal her sensitivity to language and her critical interest in developing a Taiwanese cultural heritage.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Bateman is in the midst of churning a career-high output of 654 total yards and seven touchdowns in 14 games so far.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The only drawback is that while Raphinha has been outstanding, the Brazilian has been on an unsustainable, white-hot finishing run in Europe this season.
    Brett Koremenos, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • What began as a white-hot heel turn by The New Day has gone somewhat lukewarm over the last couple of months.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In between those stretches, Minnesota was a blazing inferno, hitting 20 of 35 attempts from beyond the arc to blitz the Lakers in Game 1.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The play in question came in the sixth inning when the blazing Chandler Simpson hit a soft grounder to Paul Goldschmidt at first.
    Gary Phillips, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The company built a retail and residential complex around the county’s Coconut Grove Metrorail station, and Martin also is pitching an incinerator site in western Miami-Dade as an alternative to the Levine Cava plan to rebuild the trash-burning facility in Doral.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 4 Jan. 2025
  • President Biden awarded the coveted Medal of Valor on Friday to a pair of heroic FDNY firefighters who ignored intense flames and selflessly raced into danger to save desperate New Yorkers who were trapped in burning buildings.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • On the sweltering night of Aug. 22, 2022, Hollis is plunked down on a seat outside the back door of the station near Daniel Taveras, who was popped driving into his own neighborhood.
    Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
  • During a sweltering week in March 1906, American soldiers ascended Bud Dajo, a 2,000-foot volcano on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025

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