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Seethed

Seethe \Seethe\, v. t. [imp. Seethed( Sod, obs.); p. p. Seethed, Sodden; p. pr. & vb. n. Seething.] [OE. sethen, AS. se['o]?an; akin to D. sieden, OHG. siodan, G. sieden, Icel. sj??a, Sw. sjuda, Dan. syde, Goth. saubs a burnt offering. Cf. Sod, n., Sodden, Suds.] To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh. [Written also seeth.]

Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
--2 Kings iv. 38.

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seethed

vb. (en-past of: seethe)

Usage examples of "seethed".

Distantly she wondered if he would lose control now, giving in to the violence that seethed visibly through him, shaking his restraint like winter storm waves pounding against a crumbling sea wall.

Clouds raced and seethed, veiled in moonlight and mystery, veiling the moon in turn.

The anger that seethed in his gut no more showed on the outside than a mainland volcano showed the molten stone that was its living core.

The flows came from fissures that gushed liquid stone from the volcano’s flanks whenever magma bubbled and seethed upward in response to shifts in the immense pressures beneath the earth.

Catlin's voice was flat, calm, even though anger seethed just beneath his careful surface.

The emotions that had driven her first to the edge of raging tears and then to the brink of irretrievable passion still seethed within her, but she was no longer on the breaking point of explosion.

He was desperate for sleep and cut to his soul by the contempt that seethed just beneath the neutral surface of Joy's voice.

Yet at the same time her body seethed to be free, to move, to do something besides lie here waiting for the sound of a car coming back over the desert toward her, Gabe's beloved arms closing around her, his voice telling her that he would never leave her again.

A woman could drown in that dark voice, in those tawny eyes, in the power that seethed beneath the man’s controlled surface.

No matter how hard Wolfe tried to conceal his irritation at the handsome Moran brothers’ gallant attentions to Jessica, Caleb sensed the jealousy that seethed just beneath Wolfe’s calm surface.

She met his narrowed indigo eyes, refusing to show either the pain or the yearning that seethed beneath her outward calm.

As he moved, the bullwhip seethed around him, nipping delicately at the grass, snapping softly as a campfire.

Above Shannon the wild Colorado sky seethed with clouds in every color from pearl to pewter to a strangely radiant midnight.

As he kissed her, he rocked gently within her, caressing her, leading her toward ecstasy, knowing her in a silence that seethed with all that had been and would not be again.

Emotion seethed in her, something more than the sensual hunger that he had just taught her.