Smoldering

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Smoldering \Smol"der*ing\, Smouldering \Smoul"der*ing\, a.
     Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead.
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           Some evil chance
           Will make the smoldering scandal break and blaze.


                                                    --Tennyson.
     [1913 Webster] Smolderingness

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Smolder \Smol"der\, Smoulder \Smoul"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
     {Smoldered}or {Smouldered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smoldering} or
     {Smouldering}.] [OE. smolderen; cf. Prov. G. sm["o]len,
     smelen, D. smeulen. Cf. {Smell}.]
     1. To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow
        and supressed combustion.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The smoldering dust did round about him smoke.
                                                    --Spenser.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity;
        to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.
        [1913 Webster] Smolder

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  smoldering
       adj 1: burning slowly without flame; "smoldering embers" [syn: {smouldering}]
       2: showing scarcely suppressed anger; "her tone
          was...conversational although...her eyes were smoldering"-
          James Hensel [syn: {smouldering}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "smoldering":
     abeyant, ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, apathetic,
     ardent, blazing, boiling, burning, candent, candescent, cataleptic,
     catatonic, comburent, conflagrant, dead, dopey, dormant, dull,
     flagrant, flaming, flaring, flat, flickering, foul, fuming,
     glowing, groggy, guttering, heavy, het up, hot, ignescent, ignited,
     in a blaze, in a glow, in abeyance, in flames, in suspense,
     inactive, incandescent, inert, inflamed, kindled, languid,
     languorous, latent, leaden, lifeless, live, living, logy, on fire,
     passive, phlegmatic, reeking, scintillant, scintillating,
     sedentary, seething, simmering, sizzling, slack, sleeping,
     sluggish, slumbering, smoking, sparking, stagnant, standing,
     static, suspended, tame, torpid, unaroused, unextinguished,
     unquenched