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seethe
- /siːð/ UK
- /sið/ US
Rhymes with -iːð
Where it comes from
The verb is derived from Middle English sethen, seeth (“to boil, seethe; to cook; etc.”) [and other forms], from Old English sēoþan (“to boil, seethe; to cook; etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuþan, from Proto-Germanic *seuþaną (“to boil, seethe”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sewt-, *h₂sew-, *h₂sut- (“to move about, roil, seethe”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
* Danish syde (“to seethe, boil”)
* Dutch zieden (“to boil, seethe”)
* German sieden (“to boil, seethe”)
* Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (sauþs, “burnt offering, sacrifice”)
* Icelandic sjóða (“to boil, seethe”)
* Low German seden (“to seethe”)
* Norwegian Bokmål syde (“to boil, seethe”)
* Norwegian Nynorsk sjoda, syda (“to boil, seethe”)
* Scots seth, seith (“to seethe”)
* Swedish sjuda (“to boil, seethe”)
* West Frisian siede (“to boil”)
verb seethes · seething · seethed · seethe
- Of a liquid or other substance, or a container holding it: to be boiled (vigorously); to become boiling hot. [W]hen a pot ſeetheth, if we lade it and moove the liquor up and down, even while it ſeetheth, we ſhall make it quiet.
- Of a liquid, vapor, etc., or a container holding it: to foam or froth in an agitated manner, as if boiling. My bowels ſeeth wͪ in me ⁊ take no reſt, for yͤ dayes of my trouble are come vpõ me.
- Of a person: to be in an agitated or angry mental state, often in a way that is not obvious to others. I vvill make a complementall aſſault vpon him for my buſineſſe ſeeth's.
- Of a place: to be filled with many people or things moving about actively; to buzz with activity; also, of people or things: to move about actively in a crowd or group. Shock Box was the skankiest bar in Hasted, complete with a cheesy jukebox, cheap pints, and a sweaty club in the basement that seethed every weekend with a superhorny boarding-school crowd.
- Of a place: to have inhabitants in an angry or disaffected mood; to be in a state of unrest. "All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.
- To overboil (something) so that it loses its flavour or texture; hence (figurative), to cause (the body, the mind, the spirit, etc.) to become dull through too much alcoholic drink or heat. Yee come t'encounter vvith a valiant Foe; / […] ſuch as ſhrinke not / To haue their bloods ſod vvith the dog-dayes heate, / Nor to be crudled vvith cold Saturnes Rod: […]
- To soak (something) in a liquid; to drench, to steep.
- To boil (something); especially, to cook (food) by boiling or stewing; also, to keep (something) boiling. Iacob ſod potage ⁊ Eſau came from the feld ⁊ was faine […]
- Of the stomach: to digest (food). Elixation is the ſeething of meat in the ſtomack, by the ſaid naturall heat, as meat is boyled in a pot; […]
noun seethes
- A state of boiling or frothing; ebullition, seething; hence, extreme heat; much activity.
