Seethe vs Smoulder - 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.
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
*:I don't know if you have ever thought what a rare thing in the absence of man and in a temperate climate, flames must be. The sun's heat is rarely strong enough to burn even when focussed by dewdrops, as is sometimes the case in more tropical districts. Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire. Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this again rarely results in flames. Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
(obsolete) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.
(obsolete) smoke; smother
* Gascoigne
Seethe is a related term of smoulder.
As verbs the difference between seethe and smoulder
is that seethe is (label) to boil while smoulder is .As a noun smoulder is
(obsolete) smoke; smother.seethe
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Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
smoulder
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Verb
(en verb)- (Holinshed)
- (Palsgrave)
Noun
- The smoulder stops our nose with stench.
