seethe


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
seethe/siːð/
verb
  • 1 (of a liquid) boil or be turbulent as if boiling.

    archaic cook (food) by boiling.

  • 2 be filled with intense but unexpressed anger.
  • 3 be crowded with people or things moving about in a rapid or hectic way.
– derivatives
seething adjective,
seethingly adverb.
– origin OE sēothan ‘make or keep boiling’.
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