SEETHED Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

seethed

verb

past tense of seethe

as in swirled

to be in a state of violent rolling motion the water seethed with schools of feeding piranha

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as in raged

to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger she seethed at the very thought of the staff's staggering incompetence

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Recent Examples of seethed When Burgess put both their names on the sign outside their Bridgeport, Connecticut, workshop, Fuller seethed. — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2026 Despite performing alongside the Sailors, Burney quietly seethed over the way Guzmán treated the band, and Fernández in particular. — Longreads, 5 Mar. 2026 For the next several years, Hostetler seethed on the bench. — Tim Rohan, NBC news, 24 Jan. 2026 Sean Payton stood behind a lectern in a small room deep inside Levi’s Stadium back in August and seethed. — Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026 Mace seethed at the Ethics panel’s move. — Emily Brooks, The Hill, 20 Nov. 2025 His own work seethed with the gritty vernacular of the street, evoking the Sturm und Drang of the Midwestern metropolis. — News Desk, Artforum, 23 Oct. 2025 The result was a gonzo spaghetti Western that seethed with anti-colonialist sentiment and won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025 Many also seethed over the fact that some of these same teams had memorialized George Floyd, the Black man murdered on video by Derek Chauvin, then a Minneapolis police officer, in 2020, whose death set off a nationwide wave of street demonstrations. — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025

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Speculation has swirled in recent weeks over whether Saudi Arabia would go forward with the event, given high-profile attacks on the Riyadh airport.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026
When Big Bear’s celebrity eagle died in August, questions swirled about what had gone wrong.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of swirled

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Ruffalo raged against the Para-WBD merger over the last year, and was one of the loudest voices up to final days before a settlement was reached in state Attorneys General antitrust suit against the Ellisons.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026
Reporting from Milton, Florida Some Milton residents were luckier than others as the storm raged Friday evening.

— Erika Angulo, NBC news, 11 Oct. 2026

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And in September, Hurricane Marie churned up big waves that damaged oceanfront homes near Los Angeles before veering away from the coast.

— Nicholas Grondin, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
Alongside, another person whisks over a tall, yolk-yellow block of butter, churned in-house for 48 hours and formed into the craggy shape of one of Rodin’s intentionally incomplete sculptures.

— Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of churned

Verb

The flow of money from Qatar into Gaza has taken on new significance since October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists stormed southern Israel, murdered some 1,200 people, and took 251 more hostage.

— Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
They were moved to various locations as rioters stormed the Capitol, and ended up barricading themselves in the Rayburn House Office Building until order was restored and Krishnamoorthi could vote.

— Marni Pyke, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of stormed

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Loose white sand blew into the air and whirled around at the edge of the sea like a fog.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026
Within this awkward relic of several other ages, New York’s past gets fetishized, chopped up, and whirled together into digestible entertainment.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of whirled

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But cars have been burned, trees damaged and people hurt in communities across the Palestinian territory, with some people calling this the most dangerous season yet.

— Reuters, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2026
Settlers had burned cars in the neighboring village of Turmus Ayya.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026

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