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Seethe vs Infuriate - What's the difference?

seethe | infuriate |

As verbs the difference between seethe and infuriate

is that seethe is (label) to boil while infuriate is to make furious or mad with anger; to enrage.

As an adjective infuriate is

enraged, furious.

seethe

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

  • (label) To boil.
  • *:
  • *: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.
  • infuriate

    English

    Verb

    (infuriat)
  • To make furious or mad with anger; to enrage
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Enraged, furious.
  • * 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 336:
  • *:‘A'll not leave thee,’ said Weeper in an infuriate rage.
  • (Milton)
  • * Thomson
  • Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath.
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