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verb-intransitive. To burn with little smoke and no flame.

verb-intransitive. To exist in a suppressed state: Revolution smoldered in the masses.

verb-intransitive. To show signs of repressed anger or hatred.

n. Thick smoke resulting from a slow fire.

v. To burn with no flame and little smoke.

v. To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion.

verb-intransitive. To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.

verb-intransitive. To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly.

v. To smother; to suffocate; to choke.

n. Smoke; smother.

To burn and smoke without flame; be smothery.

Hence To exist in a suppressed state; burn inwardly, without outward demonstration as a thought, passion, and the like.

To suffocate; smother.

To discolor by the action of fire.

n. Slow or suppressed combustion; smoke; smother.

n. a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame

v. have strong suppressed feelings

v. burn slowly and without a flame

"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."

smoulder   

smoldered    smoldering    smolders   

fire    feel    experience    burn    combust   

smother    suffocate    choke    smoke    burn    fire smoke   

Boulder    beholder    bolder    boulder    colder    folder    golder    holder    molder    moulder