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smol·der

also smoul·der (smōl′dər)

intr.v. smol·dered, smol·der·ing, smol·ders also smoul·dered or smoul·der·ing or smoul·ders

1. To burn with little smoke and no flame.

2. To exist in a suppressed state: Revolution smoldered in the masses.

3. To show signs of repressed anger or hatred.

Thick smoke resulting from a slow fire.

[Middle English smolderen, to suffocate, from smolder, smoke, probably alteration of smorther, from Old English smorian, to smoke.]

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smoldering

(ˈsməʊldərɪŋ)

adj

the US spelling of smouldering

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smoldering - showing scarcely suppressed anger; "her tone was...conversational although...her eyes were smoldering"- James Hensel

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angry - feeling or showing anger; "angry at the weather"; "angry customers"; "an angry silence"; "sending angry letters to the papers"

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Along the length of his thigh, the head on his knee and directed toward a smoldering log in a fireplace, clung an incredibly large striped cat.

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He stirred the smoldering ashes till the broiled fowl began to sizzle afresh.

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A cloud of dark smoke, as from smoldering ruins, went up toward the sun now bright and gay in the blue, enameled sky.

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In the farthest corner, on a bench beside a bed on which something was lying, stood a tallow candle with a long, thick, and smoldering wick.

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