seethes

verb

present tense third-person singular of seethe
1
as in churns
to be in a state of violent rolling motion the water seethed with schools of feeding piranha

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2
as in rages
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 seethes The frustration that seethes through the show is often born of the disappointment that a form as quicksilver and astounding as songwriting can be yoked to small-minded and propagandistic ends. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026 Tom Rhys Harries seethes as Matt Hagen, a pretty boy who loses his looks only to regain them from an experimental procedure that makes a jumble of his psyche. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2026 In the very human-scale role of Chef, all that glamour and pageantry seethes just beneath the skin. — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026 As Seth seethes about his separation from his home country (and the family fortune), Arias interweaves a backstory involving assassination, undisclosed parentage and (as the title suggests) the perilous creatures slithering across the landscape. — Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026 Trump seethes with hatred and erupts in volcanic fury to denounce, demonize, disparage and threaten anyone who refuses to support his increasingly irrational and harmful proposals and actions. — Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2026 The river tumbles and seethes through 278 miles of Grand Canyon National Park, taking its geologic time in carving a trench now deeper than a mile. — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025 Cheryl Conrad no longer seethes with the frustration that threatened to overwhelm her in 2006. — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seethes
  1. churns
  2. rages
  3. swirls
  4. steams
  5. boils
  6. burns
  7. roils
  8. storms
Verb
  • Although all of the solar system’s planets with atmospheres have wave-spawning disturbances, only Saturn churns them out looking like polygons, geometric shapes bounded by straight lines.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • For all of Jaws' carnage, nothing churns the gut quite like the death of local boy Alex Kintner, played by Jeffrey Voorhees.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 June 2026
Definition of churns
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  • And as the war rages on some four years later, SpaceX’s terminals are once again making headlines.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Not surprisingly, the ballooning price of oil was the driving force behind the inflationary bump as the war in Iran rages on and energy exports remain tied up in the Strait of Hormuz.
    — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of rages
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  • But unlike when Kruger first started producing conceptual art some five decades ago, similar language now swirls all around us more than ever.
    — Amy Verner, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Max Martin, Grande sings of blowing through breakups and make-ups and enduring mounting exhaustion with mass notoriety while the music swirls patiently and frequently angrily underneath.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of swirls
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  • As America steams headlong into November, working-class folks are still at loggerheads with its political class.
    — Jim Beaugez, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2026
  • In a crockery pot, my father steams cauliflower, stirring it round and round.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of steams
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  • If the water gets too hot, well, the poor little froggy boils to death.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The second a Verizon worker mentions adding a screen protector, my blood boils.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of boils
Verb
  • The friction causes an electrical shock that burns Clancy, and Lisa steals his keys.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The Aspen Acres Fire burns behind homes on July 3, 2026, in Rye, Colorado.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of burns
Verb
  • Tehran has dug in its heels — to Trump’s frustration — as energy prices rise, the global economy roils and poll numbers on the administration’s handling of the war dip ahead of November’s midterm congressional elections.
    — Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Tehran has dug in its heels — to Trump’s frustration — as energy prices rise, the global economy roils and poll numbers on the administration's handling of the war dip ahead of November’s midterm congressional elections.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of roils
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  • Saturday, the system sent a long band of powerful thunder storms up the center of Georgia.
    — Bill Chappell, NPR, 10 Oct. 2026
  • So the group storms an elite gala in Greece hosted by vapid billionaire Ben Bracken (Vincent Cassel).
    — David Faris, TheWeek, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of storms

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“Seethes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seethes. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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