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