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smoulder::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | smolder |
| Type of | experience, feel |
Examples of smoulder
smoulder
The rubbish mounds smoulder like a lava flow which has only just come to a halt.
From the economist.com
In the volatile south, tensions between Uzbek and Kyrgyz continue to smoulder.
From the guardian.co.uk
Zach crouched down behind a bush until the flame took and the spliff began to smoulder.
From the guardian.co.uk
So Kashmir is left to smoulder, with dire consequences for its citizens.
From the economist.com
His features positively smoulder, like an Al Green album cover from the early Seventies.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Gwyneth Paltrow, usually glacial and the utmost in sophistication, surprised with some smoulder.
From the canberratimes.com.au
More seriously, some were occupied when they started to smoulder.
From the newscientist.com
I still smoulder that Charles Street goes the wrong way.
From the boston.com
Now attempting not to smoulder in the title role in Macbeth on stage, which has received mixed reviews.
From the independent.co.uk
- A fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame; "the smoulder suddenly became a blaze"
- Smolder: have strong suppressed feelings
- Smolder: burn slowly and without a flame; "a smoldering fire"
- (smouldering) smoldering: showing scarcely suppressed anger; "her tone was...conversational although...her eyes were smoldering"- James Hensel
- 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 . ...
- Alternative form of smolder
- (SMOULDERING) To burn and probably smoke without flame; to exist in a state of suppressed activity. Can result in high heat release when oxygen is plentiful.
- A fire where either the fuel or temperature is insufficient to create flames. This type of fire creates a great deal of smoke.
