Word: seethe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English sethen, seeth (“to boil, seethe; to cook; etc.”) [and other forms], from Old English sēoþan (“to boil, seethe; to cook; etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuþan, from Proto-Germanic *seuþaną (“to boil, seethe”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sewt-, *h₂sew-, *h₂sut- (“to move about, roil, seethe”). The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates * Danish syde (“to seethe, boil”) * Dutch zieden (“to boil, seethe”) * German sieden (“to boil, seethe”) * Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (sauþs, “burnt offering, sacrifice”) * Icelandic sjóða (“to boil, seethe”) * Low German seden (“to seethe”) * Norwegian Bokmål syde (“to boil, seethe”) * Norwegian Nynorsk sjoda, syda (“to boil, seethe”) * Scots seth, seith (“to seethe”) * Swedish sjuda (“to boil, seethe”) * West Frisian siede (“to boil”) Pronunciation: /siːð/, /sið/ 1. Of a liquid or other substance, or a container holding it: to be boiled (vigorously); to become boiling hot. Labels: intransitive Example: [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. Example: Deep Hell! that seethest in thy simmering pit; / Thy thousand throned horrors shall not vie, / Or ever compass it! 2. Of a liquid, vapor, etc., or a container holding it: to foam or froth in an agitated manner, as if boiling. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: My bowels ſeeth wͪ in me ⁊ take no reſt, for yͤ dayes of my trouble are come vpõ me. Example: I obſerue our Ducheſſe / Is ſicke a dayes, ſhe puykes, her ſtomacke ſeethes, […] 3. Of a person: to be in an agitated or angry mental state, often in a way that is not obvious to others. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: I vvill make a complementall aſſault vpon him for my buſineſſe ſeeth's. Example: [F]or them alone did seethe / A thousand men in troubles wide and dark: […] 4. 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. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: 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. 5. Of a place: to have inhabitants in an angry or disaffected mood; to be in a state of unrest. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: "All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer. 6. To overboil (something) so that it loses its flavour or texture; hence (figurative), to cause (the body, the mind, the spirit, etc.) to become dull through too much alcoholic drink or heat. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Yee come t'encounter vvith a valiant Foe; / […] ſuch as ſhrinke not / To haue their bloods ſod vvith the dog-dayes heate, / Nor to be crudled vvith cold Saturnes Rod: […] Example: [F]oorthvvith her eyes bred her eye-ſore, the firſt vvhite vvhereon their tranſpiercing arrovves ſtuck, being the breathleſſe corps of Leander: vvith the ſodaine contemplation of this piteous ſpectacle of her loue, ſodden to haddocks meate, her ſorrovve could not chooſe but be indefinite, […] 7. To soak (something) in a liquid; to drench, to steep. Labels: archaic, transitive 8. To boil (something); especially, to cook (food) by boiling or stewing; also, to keep (something) boiling. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Iacob ſod potage ⁊ Eſau came from the feld ⁊ was faine […] Example: When we had paſſed againe the line, and were come to the third degree, or ſomewhat more, we ſawe crabs ſwimming on the water that were red as though they had bene ſodden, but this was no signe of land. 9. Of the stomach: to digest (food). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Elixation is the ſeething of meat in the ſtomack, by the ſaid naturall heat, as meat is boyled in a pot; […]