seething
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English sethyng; equivalent to seethe + -ing.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editseething (not comparable)
- Filled with unexpressed anger, the state of being livid.
- boiling, bubbling
- 2021 January 15, Debra Kamin, “Hounded by Wildfires, Californians Rethink Their Willingness to Rebuild”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- But as the nation’s most populous state stares down a seething climate crisis, one that cranked temperatures into triple digits last fall and set off a series of infernos that exploded, into bone dry air, the rebuilding process is beginning to look different.
Translations
editNoun
editseething (plural seethings)
- The action of the verb to seethe.
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 39, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 395:
- Over the winter-solid Roads, goes a great seething,— of mounted younger Gentlemen riding together by the dozens upon rented horses, Express Messengers in love with pure Velocity, Disgruntl'd Suitors with Pistols stuff'd in their Spatterdashes, seal'd Waggons not even a western Black-Boy would think of detaining.
Verb
editseething
- present participle and gerund of seethe
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