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- [seeth]
- /sið/
- /siːð/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [seeth]
- /sið/
Definitions of seething word
- verb without object seething to surge or foam as if boiling. 1
- verb without object seething to be in a state of agitation or excitement. 1
- verb without object seething Archaic. to boil. 1
- verb with object seething to soak or steep. 1
- verb with object seething to cook by boiling or simmering; boil. 1
- noun seething the act of seething. 1
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Origin of seething
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English; Old English sēothan; cognate with German sieden, Swedish sjuda
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Parts of speech for Seething
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
seething popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 68% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for seething
adj seething
- bent out of shape — very angry, upset, or agitated
- carbonated — Carbonated drinks are drinks that contain small bubbles of carbon dioxide.
- carried away — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
- chock — a block or wedge of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
- chocker — full up; packed
noun seething
- ebullition — a seething or overflowing, as of passion or feeling; outburst.
- fermentation — the act or process of fermenting.
- frothing — an aggregation of bubbles, as on an agitated liquid or at the mouth of a hard-driven horse; foam; spume.
- wildness — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
adjective seething
- foaming — a collection of minute bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc.: foam on a glass of beer.
- fuming — Often, fumes. any smokelike or vaporous exhalation from matter or substances, especially of an odorous or harmful nature: tobacco fumes; noxious fumes of carbon monoxide.
- yeasty — of, containing, or resembling yeast.
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