seethe
verb (used without object)
to surge or foam as if boiling.
had seethed
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past perfectof seethe.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In Washington Congress had seethed with legislative proposals to set the convictions aside.
From Time Magazine Archive
The police were summoned, and the whole of Little Hangleton had seethed with shocked curiosity and ill-disguised excitement.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
Whilst Stannis had seethed at the defiance, she had shuddered with relief.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
As to the act of the Bishops, I thought, as Walter Scott has applied the text, that they had "seethed the kid in his mother's milk."
From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
She stood suddenly quiet, as if the wine in her blood had seethed and quieted.
From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Fannie Hurst
