Word Meanings - SEETHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh. Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. 2 Kings iv. 38. (more info) sieden, OHG. siodan, G. sieden, Icel. sj, Sw. sjuda, Dan. syde, Goth.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SEETHE)

• Ferment
• Seethe
• concoct
• brew
• warm
• chafe
• effervesce
• rankle
• fester
• Smolder
• Reek
• simmer
• seethe
• ferment
• work

Related words: (words related to SEETHE)

• FERMENTABLE
  Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.
• FERMENT
  fervimentum, fr. fervere to be boiling hot, boil, ferment: cf. F. 1. That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer. Note: Ferments are of two kinds: Formed or organized ferments. Unorganized or structureless ferments. The
• FESTERMENT
  A festering. Chalmers.
• CONCOCTER
  One who concocts.
• EFFERVESCENCE; EFFERVESCENCY
  A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.
• CHAFER
  1. One who chafes. 2. A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons. Baker.
• SMOLDERINGNESS; SMOULDERINGNESS
  The state of smoldering.
• CHAFERY
  An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
• SEETHER
  A pot for boiling things; a boiler. Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden.
• CHAFEWAX; CHAFFWAX
  Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
• EFFERVESCENT
  Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas
• SMOLDERING; SMOULDERING
  Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead. Some evil chance Will make the smoldering scandal break and blaze. Tennyson.
• FERMENTATION
  1. The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense , the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according
• CHAFEWEED
  The cudweed , used to prevent or cure chafing.
• SIMMER
  To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil. I simmer as liquor doth on the fire before it beginneth to boil. Palsgrave. (more info) Etym:
• FESTER
  1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester.
• RANKLE
  Etym: 1. To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively. A malady that burns and rankles inward. Rowe. This would have left a rankling wound in the hearts of the people. Burke. 2. To
• SMOLDER; SMOULDER
  1. To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion. The smoldering dust did round about him smoke. Spenser. 2. To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.
• CHAFE
  calfacere, to make warm; calere to be warm + facere to make. See 1. To ecxite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin. Spenser. 2. To excite passion or anger in; to fret;
• SEETHE
  To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh. Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. 2 Kings iv. 38. (more info) sieden, OHG. siodan, G. sieden, Icel. sj, Sw. sjuda, Dan. syde, Goth.
• INEFFERVESCENT
  Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent.
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
• COCKCHAFER
  A beetle of the genus Melolontha and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
• CRANKLE
  To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle. Old Veg's stream . . . drew her humid train aslope, Crankling her banks. J. Philips.
• ENFESTER
  To fester. "Enfestered sores." Davies .
• INFESTER
  One who, or that which, infests.
• ENCHAFE
  To chafe; to enrage; to heat. Shak.
• RE-FERMENT
  To ferment, or cause to ferment, again. Blackmore.