If you squelch the fire with water, the coals will not smolder.
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Smolder
//ˈsmoʊldɚ//
Synonyms for "smolder" (112 found)
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Related words (56)
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Translations
48 translations across 28 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- smeul verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σμύχω verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Belarusian
1 entries- тлець verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Bulgarian
1 entries- тлея verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 陰燃 /阴燃 verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Chuvash
1 entries- ӗн verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Czech
1 entries- doutnat verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Dutch
1 entries- smeulen verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Esperanto
2 entries- bruleti verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
- subbruli verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Finnish
2 entries- kyteä verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
- kyteä verb (to show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion)
French
3 entries- couver verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
- ronger son frein verb (to show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion)
- se consumer verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
German
2 entries- glimmen verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
- schwelen verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Greek
4 entries- καίω χωρίς φλόγα verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
- σιγοκαίω verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
- σιγοκαίω verb (to show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion)
- υποκαίω verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Hungarian
3 entries- parázslik verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
- parázslik verb (to show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion)
- parázslik verb (to exist in a suppressed or hidden state)
Ido
1 entries- bruletar verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Italian
2 entries- ardere verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
- covare verb (to show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion)
Latvian
1 entries- gruzdēt verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Māori
4 entries- mohu verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
- ponguru verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
- popō verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
- torohū verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Occitan
2 entries- coar verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
- sumir verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Polish
3 entries- gotować się verb (to show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion)
- tleć verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
- tlić się verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Portuguese
1 entries- queimar/arder (sem chama) verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Quechua
1 entries- hapuy verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Russian
1 entries- тлеть verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- cnàmh-loisg verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Spanish
1 entries- arder sin flama verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Swedish
3 entries- pyra verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
- pyra verb (to show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion)
- pyra verb (to exist in a suppressed or hidden state)
Ukrainian
2 entries- же́вріти verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
- тлі́ти verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Volapük
1 entries- smolön verb (to burn with no flame and little smoke)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
The remains of the bonfire were left to smolder for hours.
Source: wiktionary
Our quiuering Lances ſhaking in the aire, And bullets like Ioues dreadfull Thunderbolts, Enrolde in flames and fiery ſmoldering miſtes, Shall threat the Gods more than Cyclopian warres, […]
Source: wiktionary
Behind him, where the deer had been, smoldered a large circle of grass and trees.
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