seethe

seethe with (something)

1. To churn or roil with an abundance of something. The water of the rushing river seethed with white froth. The huge pot of stew seethed with bubbles as it boiled uncontrollably.
2. To be filled or swarming with some large amount of people or things. The room was so seething with people that it started giving me a panic attack! I opened the lid of the trash can to find it seething with maggots and flies.
3. To be in a state of violent, implacable agitation or excitement due to some emotion. He came out of the meeting seething with anger at being humiliated by his boss like that. I sat staring at the math textbook, positively seething with frustration. The entire country has been seething with riots and protests for the last week.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

seethe with someone or something

to swarm or seem to "boil" with someone or something. The wedding reception was seething with guests and well-wishers. The room was just seething with flies and other flying creatures.
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seethe with something

[for someone] to be agitated with anger, hatred, scorn, disgust, etc. Laura was seething with rage as she entered the tax office. We were seething with disgust at the rude way they treated the people who had just moved in.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • seethe with
  • seethe with (something)
  • there's (plenty) more where that came from
  • lavish with
  • lavish
  • lavish (someone or something) with (something)
  • crawling with (something)
  • lavish (something) (up)on (someone or something)
  • lavish on
  • lousy with someone/something
References in periodicals archive
If De Keersmaeker remains a cool analyst, Waltz seethes with the dangerous Romantic passion at the heart of Schubert's Fantasie in F Minor for Piano, Four Hands.
She adds a hard edge to Johnny's voice, underlying the anger that seethes just beneath his sophisticated veneer.
Sifting through the wreckage of familial dysfunction and personal failures, New End treads some familiar territory with Oneline drawing's "14-41." But the band hits their stride with "Hostage," which seethes with danger, drama, and fierce tempo changes.
He seethes at how corrupt his sweet game has become, how stupid and venal these "student-athletes" are, how dismal it is to interview them.
The increase in suicides and domestic violence among whites is testimony to the pain and anger that seethes in the psyche of the nation.
Below the caldera seethes the Yellowstone hot spot, a sizzling column of partly melted rock that extends about 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) across and 3,000 km (1,875 mi) down, nearly halfway to the center of Earth.
This Theatre Royal production of the masterpiece seethes with the family tensions, suppressed sexuality and the less than secret whisper of scandal that lie beneath the civilised veneer of the American South.
"Nikiya's is a leashed passion that seethes under the surface and only explodes here and there." During rehearsal even McKerrow, who has danced many roles in Bayadere over her twenty-two years at ABT, finds that she still learns.
Martin still seethes over the way he was ditched from the team, despite making it in his own right, to make way for fellow-countryman Jose Maria Olazabal.