[
US
/ˈsmoʊɫdɝ/
]
VERB
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burn slowly and without a flame
a smoldering fire - have strong suppressed feelings
NOUN
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a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame
the smoulder suddenly became a blaze
How To Use smolder In A Sentence
- In chronic smoldering cases, inflammatory bowel disease can be misdiagnosed, and treatment with steroids only exacerbates the infection.
- I was too much at risk from the smoulder of his irritability, sudden blazes of rage, to see his deep disappointment with life.
- There were brighter pictures, of early Mexican-Californian life, a pastel of twilight eucalyptus with a sunset-tipped mountain beyond, by Reimers, a moonlight by Peters, and a Griffin stubble-field across which gleamed and smoldered California summer hills of tawny brown and purple-misted, wooded canyons. CHAPTER VIII
- Ryan Klesko sat Wednesday, his smoldering bat idled by a sore right wrist.
- One section of the factory's main exterior wall had already collapsed, leaving a pile of smouldering rubble. Times, Sunday Times
- The good news for hot hatch lovers is there is a smouldering two-litre twin turbo VXR waiting in the wings that hits showrooms in spring. The Sun
- When canals dropped the water table below the surface, and the sawgrass was cleared, the peat dried, shrank and blew away, or burnt like a cigar, smoldering for months and years, filling the sky with smoke.
- Several hours after the crash, the building still was smouldering, with black smoke hanging in the air.
- The mat was smoldering where the burning log had fallen.
- Anthony remained standing, gazing at a large, smouldering log that looked poised to roll forward undesirably. IN LOVE AND WAR