Usually means: Boil with anger or resentment.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. seethe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. seethe: Merriam-Webster
  3. seethe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. seethe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. seethe: Collins English Dictionary
  6. seethe: Vocabulary.com
  7. Seethe, seethe: Wordnik
  8. seethe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. seethe: Wiktionary
  10. seethe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. seethe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. seethe: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Seethe, seethe: Dictionary.com
  14. seethe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. seethe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Seethe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. seethe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. seethe: Rhymezone
  19. Seethe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. seethe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. seethe: FreeDictionary.org
  22. seethe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. seethe: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. seethe: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seethe: Legal dictionary

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  1. seethe: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seethe: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Seethe: Easton Bible
  2. SEETHE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

(Note: See seethed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  Of a liquid or other substance, or a container holding it: to be boiled (vigorously); to become boiling hot.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  Of a liquid, vapour, etc., or a container holding it: to foam or froth in an agitated manner, as if boiling.
verb:  Of a person: to be in an agitated or angry mental state, often in a way that is not obvious to others.
verb:  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.
verb:  Of a place: to have inhabitants in an angry or disaffected mood; to be in a state of unrest.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  (archaic, chiefly passive voice)
verb:  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.
verb:  To soak (something) in a liquid; to drench, to steep.
verb:  (obsolete)
verb:  To boil (something); especially, to cook (food) by boiling or stewing; also, to keep (something) boiling.
verb:  (obsolete, physiology) Of the stomach: to digest (food).
noun:  (chiefly figurative) A state of boiling or frothing; ebullition, seething; hence, extreme heat; much activity.

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