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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.]

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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TOKYO -- Japan's All Nippon Airways, the launch customer for Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner," will resume commercial flights of the aircraft on Sunday, just over four months after the jets were grounded due to smoldering batteries.

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A FAMILY had a lucky escape after a mother discovered a smoldering electricity box just moments before going to bed.

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1 : to burn slowly usually with smoke and without flame <A fire was smoldering in the grate.