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单词 seething
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seething

adjective

seeth·​ing ˈsē-ṯẖiŋ How to pronounce seething (audio)
1
: intensely hot : boiling
a seething inferno
2
: constantly moving or active : agitated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Former prisoners and staffers told the Globe that race is a seething issue — a mostly white staff supervises a predominantly Black and Hispanic population. BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2021 Plain chords come up against seething textures; a melody surges in and floats away. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021 Spiritual Pisces, the best way to let go is to create and execute a private anti-seething ritual. Holiday Mathis, Arkansas Online, 20 May 2021 Prominent Republicans — from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw — have latched onto their own state's deadly power outages to take aim at renewable energy, igniting a seething debate over energy policy. Mark Olalde, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021 There are, of course, seething, murderous, anti-American liberals out there who will claim that President Trump’s vaccine — coming two weeks from now! — cannot be trusted. Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2020 The sun may seem like an unvarying yellow orb from afar, but a zoomed in view reveals a seething mass of swirling currents and rising blobs—more boiling water balloon than shining bauble. Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 31 Jan. 2020 If not, they would be tossed out of the safe house, left to the seething violence of Reynosa. Azam Ahmed, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2019 Grbac recounted last week about his seething post-game speech. Phillip Morris, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2020 See More

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

seething 1 of 2

adjective

as in boiling

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • boiling
  • blazing
  • molten
  • sizzling
  • scorching
  • glowing
  • sweltering
  • searing
  • red
  • superheated
  • broiling
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • torrid
  • burning
  • white-hot
  • scalding
  • heated
  • ardent
  • fiery
  • sultry
  • igneous
  • warmed
  • roasting
  • overheated
  • feverish
  • inflamed
  • hot
  • warm
  • red-hot
  • flushed
  • piping hot
  • reheated
  • warmish
  • toasty
  • ultrahot
  • enflamed
  • steamy
  • muggy
  • snug
  • tropical
  • summery
  • summerlike
  • canicular

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • bitter
  • cold
  • icy
  • frigid
  • frozen
  • glacial
  • freezing
  • arctic
  • chilly
  • iced
  • chill
  • cool
  • snappy
  • bone-chilling
  • cooled
  • shivering
  • frosty
  • ice-cold
  • wintry
  • chilled
  • nippy
  • snowy
  • subzero
  • coolish
  • algid
  • coldish
  • numb
  • unheated
  • wintery
  • benumbed
  • refrigerated
  • subfreezing
  • blizzardly
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seething

2 of 2

verb

present participle of seethe
1
as in swirling
to be in a state of violent rolling motion the water seethed with schools of feeding piranha

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • swirling
  • churning
  • roiling
  • boiling
  • whirling
  • spinning
  • moiling
  • stirring
  • reeling
  • agitating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • subsiding
  • calming
  • abating
2
as in raging
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger she seethed at the very thought of the staff's staggering incompetence

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • raging
  • steaming
  • fuming
  • boiling
  • burning
  • storming
  • shaking
  • rankling
  • foaming
  • sizzling
  • fulminating
  • agitating
  • ranting
  • seeing red
  • raving
  • smoldering
  • roiling
  • bristling
  • stewing
  • smouldering
  • convulsing
  • inflaming
  • enflaming
  • fretting
  • chafing
  • flaring (up)
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