seething

/ ˈsiːðɪŋ /

adjective

1. boiling or foaming as if boiling

2. crowded and full of restless activity

3. in a state of extreme agitation, esp through anger

Other Word Forms

• seethingly adverb

Example Sentences

He stands over me, seething, for what feels like forever.

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“It was, Your Honor,” she said, but inside she was seething.

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Manville, who won an Olivier Award for her performance in “Oedipus,” delivers a performance as sublimely seething as her Oscar-nominated turn in “Phantom Thread.”

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But before it could find safety it was swallowed up in a seething swarm of birds.

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Press the start button—to the left of the steering wheel, where it’s always been—and the Turbo S goes from silent to seething in an instant.

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Related Words

• agitation 
• commotion 
• convulsion 
• disturbance 
• excitement 
• ferment 
• fracas 
• hassle 
• maelstrom 
• outcry 
• pandemonium 
• quarrel 
• riot 
• strife 
• turbulence 
• turmoil 
• unrest 
• upheaval