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in constant agitation“a seething flag-waving crowd filled the streets”“a seething mass of maggots”“lovers and madmen have such seething brains — Shakespeare”Opposite unagitatedSimilar agitated

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

“seething” is listed under Seethe.

Seethe transitive verb [past tense Seethed (Sod (…), obs.); past participle Seethed, Sodden (…); present participle & verbal noun Seething.]

Origin: OE. sethen, AS. seó…an; akin to D. sieden, OHG. siodan, G. sieden, Icel. sj…a, Sw. sjuda, Dan. syde, Goth. saubs a burnt offering. Cf. Sod, noun, Sodden, Suds.

To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh. [Written also seeth.]

Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.— 2 Kings iv. 38.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54