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Answer for the clue "Do a slow burn ", 6 letters:
seethe

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Old English seoþan "to boil," also figuratively, "be troubled in mind, brood" (class II strong verb; past tense seaþ , past participle soden ), from Proto-Germanic *seuthan (cognates: Old Norse sjoða , Old Frisian siatha , Dutch zieden , Old High German ...

Usage examples of seethe.

And all the blissful while The schoolboy satchel at your hip Was such a bulse of gems as should amaze Grey-whiskered chapmen drawn From over Caspian: yea, the Chief Jewellers Of Tartary and the bazaars, Seething with traffic, of enormous Ind.

This bloody town has about driven me insane, with its hypermodern facade and its seething primitive instincts.

Harriet, seething with curiosity, was forced to sit quiet while he spoke to Mevrouw Van Minn en too.

In the lee of the islands the loch was black as midnight but elsewhere it was a seething boiling white, the waters wickedly swirling, churning, spinning in evil-looking whirlpools as it passed across overfalls or forced its way through the narrow channels between the islands or between the islands and the shore.

There were no waves as such, just a bubbling swirling seething maelstrom of whirlpools, overfalls and races, running no way and every way, gleaming boiling white in the overfalls and races, dark and smooth and evil in the hearts of the whirlpools.

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Behind her, Pentryl stared at the boiling and steaming mass that seethed and oozed down the canyon that had held the stream.

Konzak heavy across his thighs, Lyons looked out at the Pettah street, crowded with Asian bodies, and his loathing suddenly peaked in one seething moment of hatred.

All seething with detail that ramified as you looked at it, then split again into underworlds of minutia.

That seething, half-luminous cloud background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial, and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.

Mirrors made her nervous, especially all these, each set over a marble sink with mermaids for tap handles, in a space lit like a bus station, walls covered in gold velvet with a raised heraldic pattern, pink and cream accents everyplace, a fountain in the middle, some scaled-down Roman repro, concealed speakers playing FM stereo locked to some easy-listening frequency in the area, seething quietly, like insect song.

The whole of the lower floor of the house was carpeted with a seething mass of writhing, rotting bodies.

Abner Sharpies, seething with rage, rose abruptly frem his chair and pushed his way through the crowd to the door.

Raymond Denny died of septicemia, his blood seething with staphylococcus and its destructive toxins.

She was so utterly alone, she felt so stifled in that sleepy abode, the exuberance of youth seethed so strongly within her, her heart craved so desperately for friendship!