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Smolder

//ˈsmoʊldɚ// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of smoldering or something that smolders.

    "And she’s got a great scene partner in Stevens, refining his star power into a just slightly, almost imperceptibly mechanical approximation of Don Juan smolder. He lets us admire the interface and still see the code ticking away underneath it."

  2. 2
    a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To burn with no flame and little smoke. US, intransitive

    "The remains of the bonfire were left to smolder for hours."

  2. 2
    burn slowly and without a flame wordnet
  3. 3
    To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion. figuratively, intransitive
  4. 4
    have strong suppressed feelings wordnet
  5. 5
    To exist in a suppressed or hidden state. figuratively, intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English smolderen (“to suffocate, stifle”), from Middle English smolder (“smoke, smoky vapour”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *smolōn (“to burn, glow, fume, smoulder”). Related to Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (> English smell).

Etymology 2

From Middle English smolderen (“to suffocate, stifle”), from Middle English smolder (“smoke, smoky vapour”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *smolōn (“to burn, glow, fume, smoulder”). Related to Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (> English smell).

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