SEETHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seething mean? 

• SEETHING (adjective)
  The adjective SEETHING has 1 sense:

1. in constant agitation

  Familiarity information: SEETHING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEETHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In constant agitation

Context example:

lovers and madmen have such seething brains

Similar:

agitated (physically disturbed or set in motion)

 Context examples 

“She can scarce draw clear,” cried Hawtayne, with his eyes from the sail to the seething line of foam.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This seething ocean of lava could feed steam into the atmosphere long after the star has calmed to its current, steady glow, replenishing the planet with water.

(Super-Earth in Habitable Zone, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Their determined rush carried the prize-fighters before them, the inner ropes snapped like threads, and in an instant the ring was a swirling,’ seething mass of figures, whips and sticks falling and clattering, whilst, face to face, in the middle of it all, so wedged that they could neither advance nor retreat, the smith and the west-countryman continued their long-drawn battle as oblivious of the chaos raging round them as two bulldogs would have been who had got each other by the throat.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Any attempt at recovering the bodies was absolutely hopeless, and there, deep down in that dreadful caldron of swirling water and seething foam, will lie for all time the most dangerous criminal and the foremost champion of the law of their generation.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The boat drew closer and closer, hurling along through the seething green like a thing alive, lifting and sending and uptossing across the huge-backed breakers, or disappearing behind them only to rush into sight again and shoot skyward.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)