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Antonyms for seething

Grammar : Verb
Spell : seeth
Phonetic Transcription : sið

Definition of seething

Origin :
  • Old English seoþan "to boil," also figuratively, "be troubled in mind, brood" (class II strong verb; past tense seaþ, past participle soden), from Proto-Germanic *seuthan (cf. Old Norse sjoða, Old Frisian siatha, Dutch zieden, Old High German siodan, German sieden "to seethe"), from PIE root *seut- "to seethe, boil."
  • Driven out of its literal meaning by boil (v.); it survives largely in metaphoric extensions. Figurative use, of persons or populations, "to be in a state of inward agitation" is recorded from 1580s (implied in seething). It had wider figurative uses in Old English, e.g. "to try by fire, to afflict with cares." Now conjugated as a weak verb, and past participle sodden (q.v.) is no longer felt as connected.
  • verb be very angry
Example sentences :
  • He was stung by some old recollection, and had marched off, seething with fury.
  • Extract from : « The Room in the Dragon Volant » by J. Sheridan LeFanu
  • "The whole town is seething with indignation," he called to me.
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • And on that horizon are the gilded domes and smoking chimneys of the seething city.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • Who would think, to look on a scene like this, that the city is seething with dissatisfaction?
  • Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
  • Under a more or less calm exterior he was a seething cauldron of passion.
  • Extract from : « The Snare » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Nought remained where they had been but the seething waters.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 » by Various
  • One by one the tubes were discharged and tossed down at the seething mob.
  • Extract from : « The Great Dome on Mercury » by Arthur Leo Zagat
  • In less than an hour other thoughts were seething in his head.
  • Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
  • The memory of that moment in his arms was seething within her.
  • Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson
  • With a seething souse the slops went abroad, all over the floor.
  • Extract from : « The House in the Water » by Charles G. D. Roberts

Synonyms for seething

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