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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

부글부글 끓는

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bugeulbugeul kkeunhneun

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Seething/ˈsiː.ðɪŋ/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그는 속으로 분노가 부글부글 끓어올랐다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Filled with or exhibiting intense but unexpressed anger.

    "He left the meeting with a seething resentment toward his colleagues."
As verb
  1. 1

    To bubble up and boil as a result of being heated, or to be crowded and bustling with people or activity.

    "The ancient marketplace was seething with merchants and stray animals."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English verb 'sēoðan', meaning to boil, seethe, or churn, stemming from Proto-Germanic *seuþaną. Over centuries, the literal sense of water bubbling evolved metaphorically to describe individuals overflowing with intense, suppressed anger or crowds swarming with restless activity.

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