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Past tense of seethe

regular verb

The past tense of seethe is seethed. The past participle is also seethed.

Forms of seethe

Base form (V1)seethe /siːð/
Past tense (V2)seethed
Past participle (V3)seethed
Present participleseething /ˈsiː.ðɪŋ/
Third person singularseethes

Seethed in a sentence

  • 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.2011 February, Kate Kingsley, chapter 30, in Kiss & Break Up (Young, Loaded, and Fabulous), New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster...
  • He seethed about being the butt of anti-Harvard antics by the golden boy traders.2021, Eleanor Randolph, The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg, page 37. From the entry Harvard
  • The Hazaras, with their long history of being oppressed and neglected, seethed.2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 169. From the entry Hazara
  • Algiers seethed, and this was the casus belli for the ‘ultras’ to attempt a general strike.1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 309. From the entry casus belli
  • The bag seethed in her hand, not unpleasantly, as computational monofilaments shifted and flowed under her touch until they cradled the palps of her fingers.2012, Sean Stewart, Star Wars: Dark Rendezvous, Random House, →ISBN. From the entry palp

Meaning of seethe

  1. verb Of a liquid or other substance, or a container holding it: to be boiled (vigorously); to become boiling hot.
  2. verb Of a liquid, vapor, etc., or a container holding it: to foam or froth in an agitated manner, as if boiling.
  3. verb Of a person: to be in an agitated or angry mental state, often in a way that is not obvious to others.

Full definition of seethe

Questions about the past tense of seethe

What is the past tense of seethe?
The past tense of seethe is seethed.
What is the past participle of seethe?
The past participle of seethe is seethed.
Is seethe a regular or irregular verb?
Seethe is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seethe (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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