seethed; seething
1
: to suffer violent internal excitement
seethe with jealousy
2
a
: to be in a state of rapid agitated movement
b
: to churn or foam as if boiling
3
archaic
: boil
: a state of seething : ebullition
Examples of seethe in a Sentence
Verb
He seethed at his brother's success.
We found ourselves in the middle of a seething crowd.
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2025
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Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
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Verb
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Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to the nation’s streets Saturday in an eruption of anger, alarm and seething discontent over President Donald Trump’s wholesale remaking of America’s economy, its government and its place in the world.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2025
Senior star Olivia Miles seethed through the entire film session.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
Not ambition to succeed on the world’s terms (though that asserted its own maddening static) but ambition to find forms for the seethe of rage, remembrance, and wild vitality that seemed, unaccountably, like sound inside me, demanding language but prelinguistic, somehow.
—Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
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“Seethe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seethe. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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