seethe

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil Of a liquid or other substance, or a container holding it: to be boiled (vigorously); to become boiling hot.

   “[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.”

2. fiil Of a liquid, vapor, etc., or a container holding it: to foam or froth in an agitated manner, as if boiling.

   “My bowels ſeeth wͪ in me ⁊ take no reſt, for yͤ dayes of my trouble are come vpõ me.”

3. fiil Of a person: to be in an agitated or angry mental state, often in a way that is not obvious to others.

   “I vvill make a complementall aſſault vpon him for my buſineſſe ſeeth's.”

4. fiil 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.

   “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.”

5. fiil Of a place: to have inhabitants in an angry or disaffected mood; to be in a state of unrest.

   “"All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.”

6. fiil 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.

   “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: […]”

7. fiil To soak (something) in a liquid; to drench, to steep.
8. fiil To boil (something); especially, to cook (food) by boiling or stewing; also, to keep (something) boiling.

   “Iacob ſod potage ⁊ Eſau came from the feld ⁊ was faine […]”

9. fiil Of the stomach: to digest (food).

   “Elixation is the ſeething of meat in the ſtomack, by the ſaid naturall heat, as meat is boyled in a pot; […]”

10. isim A state of boiling or frothing; ebullition, seething; hence, extreme heat; much activity.