Seething

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Seethe \Seethe\, v. t. [imp. {Seethed}({Sod}, obs.); p. p.
     {Seethed}, {Sodden}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Seething}.] [OE.
     sethen, AS. se['o]?an; akin to D. sieden, OHG. siodan, G.
     sieden, Icel. sj??a, Sw. sjuda, Dan. syde, Goth. saubs a
     burnt offering. Cf. {Sod}, n., {Sodden}, {Suds}.]
     To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to


     seethe flesh. [Written also {seeth}.]
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons
           of the prophets.                         --2 Kings iv.
                                                    38.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  seething
       adj : in constant agitation; "a seething flag-waving crowd filled
             the streets"; "a seething mass of maggots"; "lovers and
             madmen have such seething brains"- Shakespeare

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  148 Moby Thesaurus words for "seething":
     agitation, ardent, baking, blistering, bluster, bobbery, boil,
     boiling, boiling over, brewing, broiling, brouhaha, burning,
     burning hot, burning with excitement, bustle, canicular, churn,
     coction, commotion, conturbation, decoction, discomposure,
     disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, drench, drenching,
     ducking, dunking, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullient, ebulliometer,
     ebullition, embroilment, excitement, febrile, ferment,
     fermentation, fervent, fervid, fever, feverish, feverishness,
     fidgets, fiery, flaming, flap, flurry, flushed, fluster,
     flutteration, foment, fume, fuss, glowing, grilling, heated,
     hectic, het up, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, hubbub, hurly-burly,
     imbruement, imbuement, impregnation, in rut, infiltration,
     infusion, injection, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness, leaching,
     like a furnace, like an oven, lixiviation, maceration, maelstrom,
     malaise, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, overheated,
     overwarm, parching, passionate, percolation, permeation,
     perturbation, piping hot, pulping, red-hot, restlessness, roasting,
     roil, rout, row, saturation, scalding, scorching, searing, seethe,
     sexually excited, simmer, simmering, sizzling, sizzling hot,
     smoking hot, smoldering, soak, soakage, soaking, sopping, souse,
     sousing, steaming, steamy, steeping, stewing, stir, sudorific,
     sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, swirl, to-do, toasting,
     torrid, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity,
     turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unrest, upset, warm,
     white-hot