smolder
IPA: smˈoʊɫdɝ
noun
- The act of smoldering or something that smolders.
verb
- (intransitive, now US) To burn with no flame and little smoke.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To exist in a suppressed or hidden state.
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Examples of "smolder" in Sentences
- The chimney is smoldering.
- The house is a smoldering ruin.
- The house began to smolder slowly.
- These can smolder year in, year out.
- It continued to smolder for 4 months.
- Duff can smolder for days after a fire.
- Finally, wood can smolder when heated sufficiently.
- They may smolder for a few minutes until they ignite.
- Her performance was described as having a smoldering moodiness.
- A pipe left to smolder may have ignited a blaze after the workmen were gone.
- They can kind of smolder and cause a fire later, and people might not even know they started a fire.
- It was chock-a-block full of interesting articles on geckos and eerily iridescent photos of deep-sea jellyfish, but for some reason the World magazines piled up in the corner until ones on the bottom began to smolder from the pressure of the magazines on the top.
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