Writhe vs Seethe - What's the difference?
writhe | seethe |
To twist, to wring (something).
To contort (a part of the body).
*, II.17:
*:Cicero (as I remember) had gotten a custome to wryth his nose, which signifieth a naturall scoffer.
To twist or contort the body; to be distorted.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= (knot theory) The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot
(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.
In transitive terms the difference between writhe and seethe
is that writhe is to contort (a part of the body) while seethe is to boil.As a noun writhe
is the number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot.writhe
English
Verb
Everton 0-2 Liverpool, passage=The game was engulfed in controversy when Rodwell appeared to win the ball cleanly in a midfield challenge with Suarez. The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players- Lucas in particular as Suarez writhed in agony - but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.}} (Webster 1913)
