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verb (used without object)
1.
to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
2.
to exist or continue in a suppressed state or without outward demonstration: Hatred smoldered beneath a polite surface.
3.
to display repressed feelings, as of indignation, anger, or the like: to smolder with rage.
noun
4.
dense smoke resulting from slow or suppressed combustion.
5.
a smoldering fire.
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Example Sentences
- Most fail, some fast in a blaze of credit-card debt, some slowly in a smolder of obscurity.
- Breathe in, through injection, skin popping and smolder are some the main ways to take it.
- The fire was extinguished last night, but in some places the embers still smolder.
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Word Origin & History
smolder
c.1300 (implied in smoldering), "to smother, suffocate," cognate with M.Du. smolen, Low Ger. smelen, Flem. smoel "hot," from P.Gmc. *smel-, *smul-. The meaning "burn and smoke without flame" is first recorded 1529, fell from use 17c. (though smoldering persisted in poetry) and was revived 19c.
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