'Seething' definitions:
Definition of 'seething'
From: WordNet
adjective
In constant agitation; "a seething flag-waving crowd filled the streets"; "a seething mass of maggots"; "lovers and madmen have such seething brains"- Shakespeare
Definition of 'Seething'
From: GCIDE
- Seethe \Seethe\, v. t. [imp. Seethed(Sod, obs.); p. p. Seethed, Sodden; p. pr. & vb. n. Seething.] [OE. sethen, AS. se['o]?an; akin to D. sieden, OHG. siodan, G. sieden, Icel. sj??a, Sw. sjuda, Dan. syde, Goth. saubs a burnt offering. Cf. Sod, n., Sodden, Suds.] To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh. [Written also seeth.] [1913 Webster]
- Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. --2 Kings iv. 38. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'seething'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agitation,
- ardent,
- baking,
- blistering,
- bluster,
- bobbery,
- boil,
- boiling,
- boiling over,
- brewing,
- broiling,
- brouhaha,
- burning,
- burning hot,
- burning with excitement,
- bustle,
- canicular,
- churn,
- coction,
- commotion,
- conturbation,
- decoction,
- discomposure,
- disorder,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- disturbance,
- drench,
- drenching,
- ducking,
- dunking,
- ebullience,
- ebulliency,
- ebullient,
- ebulliometer,
- ebullition,
- embroilment,
- excitement,
- febrile,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- fever,
- feverish,
- feverishness,
- fidgets,
- fiery,
- flaming,
- flap,
- flurry,
- flushed,
- fluster,
- flutteration,
- foment,
- fume,
- fuss,
- glowing,
- grilling,
- heated,
- hectic,
- het up,
- hot,
- hot as fire,
- hot as hell,
- hubbub,
- hurly-burly,
- imbruement,
- imbuement,
- impregnation,
- in rut,
- infiltration,
- infusion,
- injection,
- inquietude,
- jitters,
- jumpiness,
- leaching,
- like a furnace,
- like an oven,
- lixiviation,
- maceration,
- maelstrom,
- malaise,
- moil,
- nerviness,
- nervosity,
- nervousness,
- overheated,
- overwarm,
- parching,
- passionate,
- percolation,
- permeation,
- perturbation,
- piping hot,
- pulping,
- red-hot,
- restlessness,
- roasting,
- roil,
- rout,
- row,
- saturation,
- scalding,
- scorching,
- searing,
- seethe,
- sexually excited,
- simmer,
- simmering,
- sizzling,
- sizzling hot,
- smoking hot,
- smoldering,
- soak,
- soakage,
- soaking,
- sopping,
- souse,
- sousing,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- steeping,
- stewing,
- stir,
- sudorific,
- sweating,
- sweaty,
- sweltering,
- sweltry,
- swirl,
- to-do,
- toasting,
- torrid,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- tumult,
- tumultuation,
- turbidity,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- twitter,
- unease,
- unrest,
- upset,
- warm,
- white-hot