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意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English sethen, from 古期英語 sēoþan (“to seethe, boil, cook in a liquid; subject to a fiery ordeal, try as with fire; subject to great pain, afflict, afflict grievously, disturb; prepare food for the mind; subject the mind with occupations; be troubled in mind, brood”), from Proto-Germanic *seuþaną (“to seethe, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sewt-, *h₂sut-, *h₂sew- (“to move about, roil, seethe”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /siːð/

• 韻: -iːð

動詞

seethe (third-person singular simple present seethes, present participle seething, simple past seethed or (古風な用法) sod, past participle seethed or (古風な用法) sodden)

1. (transitive, archaic) To boil.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter IX, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:

     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

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 25:29:

     And Iacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and hee was faint.

   • 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.”

2. (intransitive, of a liquid) To boil vigorously.
3. (intransitive, of a liquid) To foam in an agitated manner, as if boiling.
   • 1817 December​, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, OCLC 1000449192, page 267:

     I saw all shapes of death,
     And minister’d to many, o’er the plain
     While carnage in the sun-beam’s warmth did seethe,
     Till twilight o’er the east wove her serenest wreath.

4. (intransitive, of a person, figuratively) To be in an agitated or angry mental state, as if boiling.
5. (intransitive, of a place, figuratively) To buzz with activity.
   • 2011, Kate Kingsley, Kiss & Break Up (page 201)

     Shock Box was the skankiest bar in Hasted, complete with a cheesy jukebox, cheap pints, and a sweaty club in the basement that seethed every weekend with a superhorny boarding-school crowd.

派生語

• forseethe

関連する語

• suds