Meaning

Of a liquid or other substance, or a container holding it: to be boiled (vigorously); to become boiling hot..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of a liquid or other substance, or a container holding it: to be boiled (vigorously); to become boiling hot.
2. Of a liquid, vapor, etc., or a container holding it: to foam or froth in an agitated manner, as if boiling.
3. Of a person: to be in an agitated or angry mental state, often in a way that is not obvious to others.
4. 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.
5. Of a place: to have inhabitants in an angry or disaffected mood; to be in a state of unrest.
6. 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.
7. To soak (something) in a liquid; to drench, to steep.
8. To boil (something); especially, to cook (food) by boiling or stewing; also, to keep (something) boiling.

Example Sentences

[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.

Deep Hell! that seethest in thy simmering pit; / Thy thousand throned horrors shall not vie, / Or ever compass it!

My bowels ſeeth wͪ in me ⁊ take no reſt, for yͤ dayes of my trouble are come vpõ me.

I obſerue our Ducheſſe / Is ſicke a dayes, ſhe puykes, her ſtomacke ſeethes, […]

O my belly ſeeths like a Porridge-pot, ſome cold vvater I ſhall boyle ouer elſe; my vvhole body is in a ſvveat, that you may vvring my ſhirt; […]

[A] thouſand frantick Spirits / Seething, like riſing bubbles, on the brim, / Peep'd from the VVatry brink, and glovv'd upon me.

And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, / As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, / A mighty fountain momently was forced: […]

I saw all shapes of death / And ministered to many, o'er the plain / While carnage in the sun-beam's warmth did seethe, / Till twilight o'er the east wove her serenest wreath.

Word Forms

• seethes
• seething
• seethed
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• seethe
• sod
• seethest
• seethedst
• seetheth
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• sodden
• seeth

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