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smolder
[ smohl-der ]
verb (used without object)
- to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- to exist or continue in a suppressed state or without outward demonstration:
Hatred smoldered beneath a polite surface.
- to display repressed feelings, as of indignation, anger, or the like:
to smolder with rage.
noun
- dense smoke resulting from slow or suppressed combustion.
- a smoldering fire.
smolder
/ ˈəʊə /
verb
- the US spelling of smoulder
Other Word Forms
- ܲ·DZd·Բ adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Police said the man looked to be holding a smoldering cardboard box and “was acting erratic.”
How a 30-year-old singer, born in Argentina and raised in Spain, manages to channel the smoldering melodrama of Latin music’s golden era with such uncanny precision remains a bit of a mystery.
A thin, rusty coil of sun smoldered through a patch in the clouds.
He passed through residential neighborhoods, where flames still spewed from the severed gas lines of smoldering homes, and ash rained from the sky.
Six days earlier, on New Year’s Day, a small blaze had been extinguished there but might have left smoldering embers hidden in the undergrowth, the former chiefs said.
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