seethe
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
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”)
Inflected forms:
form: seethes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: seething
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: seethed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: seethed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: seethe
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: seethe
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: seethed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: sod
pos: verb
tags: archaic
first-person
past
singular
form: seethe
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: seethest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: seethed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: seethedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: sod
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: seethes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: seetheth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: seethed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: sod
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
singular
third-person
form: seethe
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: seethed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: sod
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
plural
form: seethe
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: seethed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: sod
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
subjunctive
form: seethe
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: seething
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: seethed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sodden
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: seeth
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: seethes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a liquid or other substance, or a container holding it: to be boiled (vigorously); to become boiling hot.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [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!
gloss: Of a liquid, vapor, etc., or a container holding it: to foam or froth in an agitated manner, as if boiling.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: 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, […]
O my belly ſeeths like a Porridge-pot, ſome cold vvater I ſhall boyle ouer elſe; my vvhole body is in a ſvveat, that you may vvring my ſhirt; […]
[A] thouſand frantick Spirits / Seething, like riſing bubbles, on the brim, / Peep'd from the VVatry brink, and glovv'd upon me.
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, / As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, / A mighty fountain momently was forced: […]
I saw all shapes of death / And ministered to many, o'er the plain / While carnage in the sun-beam's warmth did seethe, / Till twilight o'er the east wove her serenest wreath.
"He seetheth like a steaming cauldron," answered the servant; "and Bauldie, the lad, walketh him about the yard with a halter, lest he take cold."
gloss: Of a person: to be in an agitated or angry mental state, often in a way that is not obvious to others.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: 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: […]
She lay and seethed in fever many weeks, / But youth was strong and overcame the test; / Revolted soul and flesh were reconciled / And fetched back to the necessary day / And daylight duties.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: Of a place: to have inhabitants in an angry or disaffected mood; to be in a state of unrest.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: "All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: 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: […]
[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, […]
Floriſhing vvits and men of good parts, good faſhion, good vvorth, baſely proſtitute themſelues to euery rogues company, to take Tobacco, and drinke, to ſing ſcurrile ſongs. […] They drovvn their vvits, ſeeth their braines in ale, […]
'Tis a poor Ideot Boy, / Who sits in the Sun, and twirls a Bough about, / His weak eyes seeth'd in most unmeaning tears.
gloss: To soak (something) in a liquid; to drench, to steep.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: To boil (something); especially, to cook (food) by boiling or stewing; also, to keep (something) boiling.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Iacob ſod potage ⁊ Eſau came from the feld ⁊ was faine […]
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.
Capillus Venerus, Polytrichon or Maydenhaire, the lye in vvhich it is ſodden or infus'd, is good to vvaſh the head and make the haire grovv in thoſe places that are more thin and bare.
[B]eef, mutton, and venison […] were cut into joints and seathed in cauldrons made of the animal's own skins, sewed hastily together and filled with water; […]
So many dead bodies were quartered, that the executioner stood ankle deep in blood. He was assisted by a poor man whose loyalty was suspected, and who was compelled to ransom his own life by seething the remains of his friends in pitch.
When he had cooked or seethed the Peace-offering, the priest took the sodden shoulder of the ram and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer and put them upon the hands of the Nazirite and waved them.
Seethe some of that in Gar Vindisc's good water and bring it to us. Bread, too, as long as you don't make it from shellbacks.
gloss: Of the stomach: to digest (food).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Elixation is the ſeething of meat in the ſtomack, by the ſaid naturall heat, as meat is boyled in a pot; […]
gloss: A state of boiling or frothing; ebullition, seething; hence, extreme heat; much activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
Related words: suds
Derived words: cope and seethe
cry and seethe
overseethe
seethed
seether
seething
seethingly
sodden
unseethed
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