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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
- unsmoldering adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Frequently, she’s shown smoldering with fury or dark intent, gazing up from under her brows with a lowered chin, something Moss says she lifted from Stanley Kubrick’s films.
Harris is “the face of that party,” he went on, warming to the heat of his smoldering rhetoric.
The fire, contained to a single building, smoldered for several days in mid-January.
When I visit on a smoldering Tuesday, I’m instructed that I shouldn’t walk on the labyrinth without walking through the labyrinth, being that it’s holy ground for the organization.
Police said the man looked to be holding a smoldering cardboard box and “was acting erratic.”
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