seethe

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They seethe, and boil, and bound, and splash.

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  1. intransitive verb To churn and foam as if boiling.
  2. intransitive verb To be in a state of turmoil or ferment: The nation seethed with suppressed revolutionary activity.
  3. intransitive verb To be violently excited or agitated: I seethed with anger over the insult. See Synonyms at boil1.
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  • Yet his ideas continued to seethe, especially when the constant spectacle of the state of affairs in Venezuela stimulated this ferment of his mind. —  Simon Bolivar, the Liberator
  • Dia had a little radio she used to listen to speeches; she told of watching its surface seethe, like a body covered with vermin. —  AeonTen
  • Background: Mercy is recovering from a brutal assault, her love life is complicated, and the mistress of the local vampire seethe is angry because Mercy killed one of her vampires.
  • Those among us who struggled through the long years of the Marcos dictatorship and witnessed first hand the profligacy of the then first lady can only seethe at the fact that not only are the Marcoses back at their high perch in Philippine society but that Imelda Romualdez Marcos 'star seems to have found new luster. —  Out of my mind
  • I'm still coming down off the seethe borne of "negotiations" (much harder to do when I'm trying to manage things on the road ... through family, friends & house-sitter) so I'm not offering up the details. —  Dr.J's HouseCalls
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seethe:   seething ·  seethes
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English sethen, to boil, from Old English sēothan.

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  1. Also seeth; from Middle English sethen (preterit seeth, plural soden, sudon, sothen, past participle soden, sothen), from Anglo-Saxon seóthan (preterit seáth, past participle soden) = OFries. siatha = Dutch zieden = Middle Low German sēden, Low German seden = Old High German siodan, Middle High German G. sieden = Icelandic sjōtha = Swedish sjuda = Danish syde, boil, seethe; hence Icelandic saudhr, a sheep, orig. a burnt-offering, = Gothic (Moesogothic) sauths, a burnt-offering; akin to Icelandic svītha (preterit sveith), burn, singe (svitha, a burning, roasting), = Swedish sveda = Danish svide, svie, burn, singe, = Old High German swedan, burn in a smoldering fire, whence Middle High German swadem, swaden, German schwadem, schwaden, steam; Anglo-Saxon swathul, smoke; from Teutonic √ suth, √ swith, burn. Hence ult. sod, suds.
 

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