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Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.
George P. Shultz

Meaning of "seething" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SEETHING

seething  [ˈsiːðɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEETHING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Seething is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SEETHING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

seething

Seething

Coordinates: 52°31′41″N 1°25′00″E / 52.52817°N 1.4167°E / 52.52817; 1.4167 Seething is a small village in Norfolk, England, about 91⁄2 miles south east of Norwich. It covers an area of 6.78 km2 and had a population of 341 in 141 households at the 2001 census. Its church, St Margaret, is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk. Seething Airfield, formerly RAF Seething, is located to the south of the village.

Definition of seething in the English dictionary

The first definition of seething in the dictionary is boiling or foaming as if boiling. Other definition of seething is crowded and full of restless activity. Seething is also in a state of extreme agitation, esp through anger.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SEETHING


bathing
ˈbeɪðɪŋ
breathing
ˈbriːðɪŋ
clothing
ˈkləʊðɪŋ
farthing
ˈfɑːðɪŋ
loathing
ˈləʊðɪŋ
nonbreathing
ˌnɒnˈbriːðɪŋ
overbreathing
ˌəʊvəˈbriːðɪŋ
scathing
ˈskeɪðɪŋ
self-loathing
ˌselfˈləʊðɪŋ
sheathing
ˈʃiːðɪŋ
soothing
ˈsuːðɪŋ
southing
ˈsaʊðɪŋ
sunbathing
ˈsʌnbeɪðɪŋ
teething
ˈtiːðɪŋ
tithing
ˈtaɪðɪŋ
trithing
ˈtraɪðɪŋ
unbreathing
ʌnˈbriːðɪŋ
unclothing
ʌnˈkləʊðɪŋ
underclothing
ˈʌndəˌkləʊðɪŋ
Worthing
ˈwɜːðɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEETHING

seemless
seemlier
seemliest
seemlihead
seemlihed
seemliness
seemly
seemlyhed
seen
seep
seepage
seepy
seer
seeress
seersucker
seesaw
seethe
seether
seethingly
seewing

WORDS THAT END LIKE SEETHING

anything
be on to a good thing
birthing
everything
first thing
fishing
get down on something
gunsmithing
hypnobirthing
know-nothing
last thing
like anything
nothing
something
sure thing
the first thing
the other thing
the real thing
the thing
thing
wolf in sheep´s clothing

Synonyms and antonyms of seething in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SEETHING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «seething» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of seething
abound · boil · brim · bristle · bubble · churn · ferment · fizz · foam · froth · fume · go ballistic · rage · see red · simmer · storm · swarm · teem · wig out

Translation of «seething» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEETHING

Find out the translation of seething to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of seething from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «seething» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

沸腾
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hirviente
570 millions of speakers

English

seething
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खदबदा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عارم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бурлящая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

efervescente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফুটন্ত গরম জলভর্তি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bouillonnante
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Seething
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

brodelnden
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

煮えくり返る
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

격렬한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Seething
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sôi sục
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கொதிக்கிற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Seething
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kaynayan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ribollente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kipiąca
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вируюча
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

clocoteste
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κοχλάζει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kokende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

jäsande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sydende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of seething

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SEETHING»

The term «seething» is regularly used and occupies the 67.013 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SEETHING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about seething

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5 QUOTES WITH «SEETHING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word seething.
1
Helen Garner
We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as.
2
Emma Orczy
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.
3
Allison Pearson
Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.
4
David Quammen
One of the things that's particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A person who's been dead for a day or two may still be seething with Ebola virus.
5
George P. Shultz
Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEETHING»

Discover the use of seething in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to seething and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Seething: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Familiar Quotations Seeping ndash; FilterBoredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art.
‎2008
2
Mr Pepys of Seething Lane
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Cecil Abernethy, 2011
3
Seething Cauldron: Essays on Zoroastrianism, Sufism, ...
The Sufi ritual meal ceremony of the 'Deeg Jush'1 translates as the 'Seething Cauldron' or 'Boiling Cauldron', and, like its Celtic equivalent; the Cauldron of Cerridwen, it symbolizes the transformation and change of the initiate as he/she ...
Payam Nabarz, 2010
4
The Poll for a Knight of the Shire for the Eastern Division ...
seething. Austin Matthew Burt John Toll Branch Daniel Crabbe George Crickmore Robert Crickmore William Crickmore John Grimer Robert Gooderham William Harvey Thomas Johnson Samuel Kerrison John Lovick Robert Lovick William ...
Elections (NORFOLK), 1858
5
The Seething Pot
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
George A. Birmingham, 2010
6
Rage
This new book from anger expert Potter-Efron offers powerful, emergency help to anyone whose extreme and volatile rages cause him or her to lose control of emotions, behaviors, and even conscious awareness--causing sometimes irreparable ...
Ronald T. Potter-Efron, 2010
7
Raf Seething
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! RAF Seething is a former World War II airfield in England. The field is located 9 miles SE of Norwich in Norfolk.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
8
Seething Sorcerer
Her husband was mysteriously killed while in the military.
Didi Kurtz, 2005
9
Studies in Classic American Literature
What remains is the old tree withering and seething down* to the crisis of winter- death, the great white race in America keenly disintegrating, seething back in electric decomposition, back to that crisis where the 10 old soul, the old era, ...
D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey, 2003
10
Fever Sweat: Tales from a Seething Mind
Fever Sweat; imagination fogged by high temperatures, reinterpreted through nightmare visions, collected in the form of tales.
Mel Cartagena, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEETHING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term seething is used in the context of the following news items.
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Sydney Swans seething after Matthew Broadbent's 'unnecessary …
Sydney Swans seething after Matthew Broadbent's 'unnecessary' contact on Luke Parker. Date: July 2, 2015. (29); Comments 27; Read later ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
2
VIDEO: Is the Seething Sardine festival London's most bizarre …
The latest event is the Seething Sardine Festival - this one is about the fiction that sardines used to swim free in the Thames downriver of Kingston and was held ... «Your Local Guardian, Jun 15»
3
Seething CC, Girardi thrown out, but Yanks keep rolling
While Jenner transitioned from male to female the Yankees have been bad, good, ugly and now are playing extremely well. So well in fact that Sunday at ... «New York Post, Jun 15»
4
Origin: Venturing into a seething mass of cockroaches
VENTURING into any Sydney pub last night was like stepping foot in my first apartment - a seething mass of cockroaches from wall to wall. Anyone with sense ... «Toowoomba Chronicle, May 15»
5
Damien Hardwick seething after sloppy Tigers fall to Kangaroos
A monster third quarter helps North Melbourne defeat Richmond by 35 points. An early Brent Harvey goal set the tempo and he kicked a long range bomb right ... «The Age, May 15»
6
Van Gogh: A Power Seething by Julian Bell: Review
As he begins to wrap up Van Gogh: A Power Seething, Julian Bell cuts to the chase in a narrative that's been racing full-tilt from the beginning. “Penultimate ... «Toronto Star, Mar 15»
7
Seething comedian fuels up on stupidity for volcanic eruptions
The political attitudes are different. The sporting preferences are different. The currency and exchange rate are very different. Even the weather, except in close ... «Winnipeg Free Press, Mar 15»
8
Learn to build a papier-mache monster at the Seething Festival …
The annual Seething Festival takes place this weekend and, appropriately enough, is being held during the Chinese year of the goat. It's all academic: State of ... «Surrey Comet, Feb 15»
9
Psychopomp & Seething review: Lost in poetic, sensory space of …
Seething is a rhythmic composition that links a turbulent ocean with carnal longing. The narrator's (Vanessa O'Neill) precise diction and gestures are at odds ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 15»
10
Silent, but seething
... a sociologist at the University of Buenos Aires. If so, Argentines will continue to seethe, perhaps not always in silence. From the print edition: The Americas ... «The Economist, Feb 15»

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