I. ˈsēth verb
( seethed -thd ; or archaic sod ˈsäd ; seethed -thd ; or archaic sod·den -d ə n ; seething ; seethes )
Etymology: Middle English sethen, from Old English sēothan; akin to Old High German siodan to seethe, Old Norse sjōtha, Lithuanian siausti to rage, Avestan hāvayeiti he stews
transitive verb
1. : to cook in a boiling or simmering liquid : boil , stew
allowed to eat anything that is roasted or seethed — William Chomsky
thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk — Exod: 23:19 (Authorized Version)
2.
a. : to soak or saturate in a liquid : reduce by soaking or boiling to a flabby lifeless condition
b. : to dull (as the brain or blood) by heat or intoxicating liquor
intransitive verb
1. archaic : to be cooked by boiling : come to a boil
2.
a. : to be in a state of rapid and agitated movement
a dark mass in which seethed houses, freight cars, trees, and animals — V.G.Heiser
swarms of flies seethed everywhere — Francis Birtles
b. : to bubble or foam as if boiling : boil , churn
when the surge was seething free — Alfred Tennyson
3. : to suffer violent internal excitement or commotion : be in a state of agitation or turmoil : ferment
his brain seethed with answers, with retorts, with crushing arguments — Francis Hackett
when the colonies were beginning to seethe with the spirit of revolt — Nation's Business
II. noun
( -s )
: the act or state of seething : ebullition
a white seethe of foaming water — F.W.Crofts
give some outlet to a seethe of violence in his muscles — Leslie Charteris