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In some senses, seethe is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
verb
Of a liquid or other substance, or a container holding it: to be boiled (vigorously); to become boiling hot.
[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!
Of a liquid, vapor, etc., or a container holding it: to foam or froth in an agitated manner, as if boiling.
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, […]
Of a person: to be in an agitated or angry mental state, often in a way that is not obvious to others.
I vvill make a complementall aſſault vpon him for my buſineſſe ſeeth's.
[F]or them alone did seethe / A thousand men in troubles wide and dark: […]
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.
Shock Box was the skankiest bar in Hasted, complete with a cheesy jukebox, cheap pints, and a sweaty club in the basement that seethed every weekend with a superhorny boarding-school crowd.
Of a place: to have inhabitants in an angry or disaffected mood; to be in a state of unrest.
"All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.
noun
A state of boiling or frothing; ebullition, seething; hence, extreme heat; much activity.