Smoulder
verb
To burn slowly with smoke but without flames.
The embers were still smouldering in the morning.
Often appears as...
- embers smoulder
- fire smoulders
verb
To have or show strong feelings, such as anger, that are not expressed openly.
His anger towards his boss continued to smoulder.
Often appears as...
- anger smoulders
- resentment smoulders
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To burn slowly with smoke but without flames.
The embers were still smouldering in the morning.
Often appears as...
- embers smoulder
- fire smoulders
verb
To have or show strong feelings, such as anger, that are not expressed openly.
His anger towards his boss continued to smoulder.
Often appears as...
- anger smoulders
- resentment smoulders
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Smouldering
Used to describe something physically burning without flame, usually after a fire.
After the campfire, the logs smouldered for hours.
Pro Tip 2/3Hidden Danger
Can imply a hidden danger, as smouldering material can reignite into flames.
Careful! The smouldering debris might flare up again.
Pro Tip 3/3Lingering Effect
Smouldering often suggests a situation's effects are lingering and not fully extinguished.
Tensions from the argument were still smouldering the next day.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Smouldering
Used to describe something physically burning without flame, usually after a fire.
After the campfire, the logs smouldered for hours.
Pro Tip 2/3Hidden Danger
Can imply a hidden danger, as smouldering material can reignite into flames.
Careful! The smouldering debris might flare up again.
Pro Tip 3/3Lingering Effect
Smouldering often suggests a situation's effects are lingering and not fully extinguished.
Tensions from the argument were still smouldering the next day.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Smouldering
Used to describe something physically burning without flame, usually after a fire.
After the campfire, the logs smouldered for hours.
Pro Tip 2/3Hidden Danger
Can imply a hidden danger, as smouldering material can reignite into flames.
Careful! The smouldering debris might flare up again.
Pro Tip 3/3Lingering Effect
Smouldering often suggests a situation's effects are lingering and not fully extinguished.
Tensions from the argument were still smouldering the next day.
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Bill Davenhall: Your...
of sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide and methane gas, in unequal quantities -- 19 years of this. And if you've been in that part of the country, this is what those piles of burning, smoldering coal waste look like. So then I decided to leave that part of the world, and I was going to go to the mid-west.
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Why monkeys (and humans)...
but in a perfect world, one without racism and sexism and the frictions associated with finding a new job, it's your sense of fairness that would let you know when it was time to move on. And if you couldn't? Well, that smoldering frustration might make you throw your cucumbers too.
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Selling Survival:...
charred powder that turns into embers gives you a new feeling of respect when you place the embers into a pile of bark or tinder they will smolder and your next step is fire almost there if you think fire is a basic survival need what about needing to see in the dark this
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Life Beyond Earth, Part...
at least simple life forms, simple microbes, maybe single-celled things; how does life begin? Does it begin with a spark, a sputter, a smolder? Does it evolve slowly? Or is it that when you have simple-celled organisms, microorganisms,
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Photographing the Civil...
piney woods it was all busted up and it was still smoldering and there were no people there I said well boy is this boring I'm having to take it I mean I had no interest in it but that's what he did he just got in this car and that was
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Katie Mack: The death of...
The end of the universe is coming. There are a few ways it could happen, but the most likely is called the heat death, and it's an agonizing, slow languishing of the cosmos. Stars burn out and leave smoldering ash.
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Wildfires 101 PIPE National...
Wildfires require three components, known as the fire triangle. A heat source, fuel, and oxygen. Heat sources, such as the sun, a hot bolt of lightning, or a smoldering match can supply enough heat to spark a fire.
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I stepped out of grief...
with the totality of my life as it was still unfolding. Fire became more than just trauma but beauty and art as well, everything, all at once, just like life, flickering and smoldering and burning and dazzling,
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River of Lava PIPE Benedict...
betraying little of its awesome power nothing can survive this smoldering
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Neanderthal Glue Makers...
Oh God then they applied a smoldering stick dire
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Bill Davenhall: Your...
of sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide and methane gas, in unequal quantities -- 19 years of this. And if you've been in that part of the country, this is what those piles of burning, smoldering coal waste look like. So then I decided to leave that part of the world, and I was going to go to the mid-west.
Video examples
Why monkeys (and humans)...
but in a perfect world, one without racism and sexism and the frictions associated with finding a new job, it's your sense of fairness that would let you know when it was time to move on. And if you couldn't? Well, that smoldering frustration might make you throw your cucumbers too.
Video examples
Selling Survival:...
charred powder that turns into embers gives you a new feeling of respect when you place the embers into a pile of bark or tinder they will smolder and your next step is fire almost there if you think fire is a basic survival need what about needing to see in the dark this
Video examples
Life Beyond Earth, Part...
at least simple life forms, simple microbes, maybe single-celled things; how does life begin? Does it begin with a spark, a sputter, a smolder? Does it evolve slowly? Or is it that when you have simple-celled organisms, microorganisms,
Video examples
Photographing the Civil...
piney woods it was all busted up and it was still smoldering and there were no people there I said well boy is this boring I'm having to take it I mean I had no interest in it but that's what he did he just got in this car and that was
Video examples
Katie Mack: The death of...
The end of the universe is coming. There are a few ways it could happen, but the most likely is called the heat death, and it's an agonizing, slow languishing of the cosmos. Stars burn out and leave smoldering ash.
Video examples
Wildfires 101 PIPE National...
Wildfires require three components, known as the fire triangle. A heat source, fuel, and oxygen. Heat sources, such as the sun, a hot bolt of lightning, or a smoldering match can supply enough heat to spark a fire.
Video examples
I stepped out of grief...
with the totality of my life as it was still unfolding. Fire became more than just trauma but beauty and art as well, everything, all at once, just like life, flickering and smoldering and burning and dazzling,
Video examples
River of Lava PIPE Benedict...
betraying little of its awesome power nothing can survive this smoldering
Video examples
Neanderthal Glue Makers...
Oh God then they applied a smoldering stick dire
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Michelle Paver
British Novelist
It's the little details I love. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. These are the things which help a world come alive.
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Edward Albert
American Actor
In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.
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Kate Chopin
American Author
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
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Neil Young
Canadian Singer
With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.
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Cherie Lunghi
English Actress
I have done so many love scenes in the past that I have learned how to pull off a sexy smoulder on the dance floor.
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Jimmy Smits
American Actor
Women think the people that I play are smoldering and dangerous. I look in the mirror, and I go, 'I don't get it.
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Robert Orben
American Entertainer
Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
American Physicist
I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
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Miriam Margolyes
English Actress
I've burnt my boats, and there they are - smouldering in public view.
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Sydney Sweeney
American Actress
Oh, I can't master the smoldering look to save my life.
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Michelle Paver
British Novelist
It's the little details I love. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. These are the things which help a world come alive.
Quote examples
Edward Albert
American Actor
In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.
Quote examples
Kate Chopin
American Author
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
Quote examples
Neil Young
Canadian Singer
With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.
Quote examples
Cherie Lunghi
English Actress
I have done so many love scenes in the past that I have learned how to pull off a sexy smoulder on the dance floor.
Quote examples
Jimmy Smits
American Actor
Women think the people that I play are smoldering and dangerous. I look in the mirror, and I go, 'I don't get it.
Quote examples
Robert Orben
American Entertainer
Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.
Quote examples
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American Physicist
I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
Quote examples
Miriam Margolyes
English Actress
I've burnt my boats, and there they are - smouldering in public view.
Quote examples
Sydney Sweeney
American Actress
Oh, I can't master the smoldering look to save my life.
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