seethed

verb

past tense of seethe
1
as in swirled
to be in a state of violent rolling motion the water seethed with schools of feeding piranha

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

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Recent Examples of seethed Mace seethed at the Ethics panel’s move. — Emily Brooks, The Hill, 20 Nov. 2025 For the next several years, Hostetler seethed on the bench. — Tim Rohan, NBC news, 24 Jan. 2026 When Burgess put both their names on the sign outside their Bridgeport, Connecticut, workshop, Fuller seethed. — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2026 Sean Payton stood behind a lectern in a small room deep inside Levi’s Stadium back in August and seethed. — Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026 His own work seethed with the gritty vernacular of the street, evoking the Sturm und Drang of the Midwestern metropolis. — News Desk, Artforum, 23 Oct. 2025 Despite performing alongside the Sailors, Burney quietly seethed over the way Guzmán treated the band, and Fernández in particular. — Longreads, 5 Mar. 2026 The result was a gonzo spaghetti Western that seethed with anti-colonialist sentiment and won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025 Many also seethed over the fact that some of these same teams had memorialized George Floyd, the Black man murdered on video by Derek Chauvin, then a Minneapolis police officer, in 2020, whose death set off a nationwide wave of street demonstrations. — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seethed
  1. swirled
  2. raged
  3. churned
  4. steamed
  5. boiled
  6. stormed
  7. whirled
  8. burned
Verb
  • Speculation about the couple's wedding venue and ceremony swirled the internet for weeks leading up to the event.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 4 July 2026
  • As internet rumors swirled that the couple would marry that day in Rhode Island, Swift and Kelce spent the evening in New York City instead.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 3 July 2026
Definition of swirled
Verb
  • Across the continent, schools closed, concerts were canceled, train lines were suspended and wildfires raged.
    — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • Cameron came up with the idea during the pandemic, as protests over the murder of George Floyd spread across the country and wildfires raged across Northern California.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 30 June 2026
Definition of raged
Verb
  • Indianapolis and central Indiana was under a tornado watch until early June 18, as severe weather churned its way across the Midwest in two rounds of storms.
    — John Tufts, IndyStar, 18 June 2026
  • Joe Picard perched atop a precarious mound of 300-plus-pound high-explosive shells as his ship churned toward Normandy’s beaches.
    — Kevin Maurer, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026
Definition of churned
Verb
  • The French capital is in the midst of a heat wave — the day of the show was the city’s hottest ever June day, until Wednesday eclipsed it — and the model’s toes steamed inside the oblong footwear.
    — Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
  • But don’t miss the crispy duck and walnut, and matsutake steamed chicken at the equally satisfying but more casual Yunnan specialty restaurant, Horizon.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 June 2026
Definition of steamed
Verb
  • Doing laundry has come a long way since people beat clothes on a rock or boiled them in a big cast-iron tub over a wood fire.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
  • They can be made into an omelet, scrambled, boiled, baked, poached, or fried.
    — Jessica Swirble, Verywell Health, 3 July 2026
Definition of boiled
Verb
  • The puncher, who was wearing a white shirt and shorts, white socks and black crocs, stormed off and has not been caught.
    — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026
  • With Lionel Messi, then 35, defying nature in Tom Brady-like fashion, Argentina stormed to its third World Cup title, which worked in Telemundo’s favor.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 3 July 2026
Definition of stormed
Verb
  • Dick took one look and whirled in mid-air.
    — Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
  • So Anikpo, a psychiatric physician assistant, didn't think to discuss the crackdown with their 9-year-old son Zeke, even as helicopters whirled over their South Minneapolis neighborhood.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 May 2026
Definition of whirled
Verb
  • The wildfire had burned across an area of 30,000 acres by Sunday, information from the European Union’s Copernicus satellite mapping agency showed.
    — Elena Becatoros, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
  • When the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses on the lawn of other beach neighbors, the only Jewish family in town, my dad tracked down the local Klan leader and told him to back off, or else.
    — Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
Definition of burned

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