smolder

[ US /ˈsmoʊɫdɝ/ ]
VERB
  1. burn slowly and without a flame
    a smoldering fire
  2. have strong suppressed feelings
NOUN
  1. a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame
    the smoulder suddenly became a blaze
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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
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