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Definition of Smolder
1. Noun. A fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame. "The smoulder suddenly became a blaze"
2. Verb. Burn slowly and without a flame. "A smoldering fire"
3. Verb. Have strong suppressed feelings.
Definition of Smolder
1. v. i. To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.
2. v. t. To smother; to suffocate; to choke.
3. n. Smoke; smother.
Definition of Smolder
1. Verb. (intransitive US) To burn with no flame and little smoke. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive figuratively) To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Smolder
1. to burn with no flame [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smolder
Literary usage of Smolder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"The fire of insurrection may flame or may smolder with varying seasons, but it
has not been and it is plain that it can not be extinguished by present ..."
2. The Classical Mythology of Milton's English Poems by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (1900)
"... Milton's poem a sort of dazzling brightness or fire appears to smolder, which
here and there breaks through into sight, and is again covered. ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"251, 1. 7. And see smoulder. SMOULDER, to burn with a stifling smoke. (E.) '
I smolder, as wete wood doth ; / smolder one, or I stoppe his ..."
4. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"1 (Belfond senior). smolder, smoky vapour, a suffocating smoke the result of slow
combustion ; ' The smolder of smoke', Bp. Andrewes, Serm. (ed. ..."
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