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Smouldering

adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Burning slowly, producing smoke but no flame. UK

    "And if we meet again, some evil chance / Will make the smouldering scandal break and blaze / Before the people, and our lord the King."

Adjective
  1. 1
    showing scarcely suppressed anger wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something smoulders; residual heat. figuratively, sometimes

    "the smoulderings of the Thirty Years War"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of smoulder form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From smoulder + -ing.

Etymology 2

From smoulder + -ing.

Etymology 3

From smoulder + -ing.

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