smoulder
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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to burn slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
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(esp of anger, etc) to exist in a suppressed or half-suppressed state
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to have strong repressed or half repressed feelings, esp anger
noun
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dense smoke, as from a smouldering fire
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a smouldering fire
Other Word Forms
- unsmouldering adjective
- unsmoulderingly adverb
Etymology
Origin of smoulder
C14: from smolder (n), of obscure origin
Example Sentences
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"This is a very big loss," he said as he walked over the smouldering remains of his tyre shop.
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As France frets about an extended drought and prospects for more wildfires in another long summer, one blaze that erupted eight months ago in the southwest of the country still smoulders away underground.
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As France frets about an extended drought and prospects for more wildfires in another long summer, one blaze that erupted eight months ago in the southwest of the country still smoulders away underground.
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Another weekend of financial firefighting has doused the whole interest rate horizon as the banking blaze smoulders.
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Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov, was reduced to a smouldering shell after weeks of fighting.
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