Seethe vs Fizz - What's the difference?
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(label) To boil.
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*:A none syr kay sayd / here is good mete for vs for one meale / for we had not many a day no good repast / And so that veneson was rosted baken and soden / and so after souper somme abode there al that nyghte
*1933 , Herbert Danby, The Mishnah , p.289:
*:When he had cooked or seethed the Peace-offering, the priest took the sodden shoulder of the ram and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer and put them upon the hands of the Nazirite and waved them.
*1960 , James Enge, Travellers' Rest :
*:“Seethe some of that in Gar Vindisc's good water and bring it to us. Bread, too, as long as you don't make it from shellbacks.”
To boil vigorously.
To foam in an agitated manner, as if boiling.
To be in an agitated or angry mental state, as if boiling.
To buzz with activity.
An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.
The sound of such an emission.
A carbonated beverage.
To emit bubbles.
To make a rapid hissing or bubbling sound.
To shoot or project something moving at great velocity.
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To travel at a great velocity, producing a sound caused by the speed.
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As verbs the difference between seethe and fizz
is that seethe is to boil while fizz is to emit bubbles.As a noun fizz is
an emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.seethe
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
fizz
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Noun
(es)- I poured a cola and waited for the fizz to settle down before topping off the glass.
- Evan sat back in the hot tub and listened to the relaxing fizz and pops produced by the eruption of bubbles.
- Nathan ordered an orange fizz from the soda jerk at the counter.
Synonyms
* (emission of bubbles) effervescence, foam, froth, head * (sound of bubbles) bubble, fizzle, hiss, sputter * (carbonated beverage) pop, seltzer, soda, tonicVerb
- the fizzing fuse of a bomb
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