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Type Words
Synonyms smoulder
Type of burn, combust


a smoldering fire.
Type Words
Synonyms smoulder
Type of fire
Type Words
Synonyms smoulder
Type of experience, feel

Examples of smolder

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Northern Ireland continued to smolder among its centuries-old religious hatreds.
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Watson said she watched parts of the burned home smolder for the rest of the day.
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Nicole Kidman or Cate Blanchett would not smolder so well on the hottest tin roof.
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The restive lowland plains that border India still smolder with ethnic unrest.
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Her gray-blue eyes could smolder on cue or, more readily, crease into a smile.
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They would smolder quietly as they rose mysteriously in a coil when they were lit.
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To her credit, even as an unlikely torch singer, Aretha still knew how to smolder.
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Some of the tanks continued to smolder and crews stood ready to fight any flare-up.
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The log will char and smolder, not burst into flame, once the top is on the kettle.
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More examples
  • Burn slowly and without a flame; "a smoldering fire"
  • Smoulder: a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame; "the smoulder suddenly became a blaze"
  • Have strong suppressed feelings
  • (smoldering) showing scarcely suppressed anger; "her tone was...conversational although...her eyes were smoldering"- James Hensel
  • Smolder is a fictional character in the various Transformers universes.
  • Smouldering (or smoldering) is the slow, low-temperature, flameless form of combustion, sustained by the heat evolved when oxygen directly attacks the surface of a condensed-phase fuel . ...
  • 10983 Smolders is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1377.6223088 days (3.77 years).
  • To burn with no flame and little smoke; To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion
  • (Smoldering) A fire burning without flame and barely spreading.