Definition of Smouldering

1. Adjective. Showing scarcely suppressed anger. "Her tone was...conversational although...her eyes were smoldering"

Exact synonyms: Smoldering
Similar to: Angry

Definition of Smouldering

1. Verb. (present participle of smoulder) ¹

2. Noun. (sometimes figurative) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Smouldering

1. smoulder [v] - See also: smoulder

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smouldering

smotherer
smotherers
smotheriness
smothering
smotheringly
smothers
smothery
smouch
smouched
smouches
smouching
smoulder
smouldered
smoulderer
smoulderers
smouldering (current term)
smoulderingly
smoulderings
smoulders
smouldry
smouse
smoused
smouser
smousers
smouses
smousing
smout
smouted
smouting
smouts

Literary usage of Smouldering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thirty Years' View, Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"smouldering fires which a single spark might light into a flame ! Possibly that spark might have been the opposing voice of some citizen, who thought the ..."

2. Manual of Chemical Technology by Johannes Rudolf Wagner (1904)
"As soon as the vapours escaping at the foot of the mound take a lighter colour comes the stage of slow smouldering. The access of air must be diminished, ..."

3. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"Finally she dies in the presence of the reconciled king and queen. does all in her power to revive the old flame still smouldering in his heart. ..."

4. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry; Famous Characters by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"Finally she dies in the presence of the reconciled king and queen. does all in her power to revive the old flame still smouldering in his heart. ..."

5. Father and Son: Biographical Recollections by Edmund Gosse (1907)
"... or than a perfectly excruciating work ambiguously styled "The Javelin of Phineas," which lay smouldering in a dull red cover on the drawing- room table. ..."

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