Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Variant of smolder.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See smolder, etc.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. See smolder.
WordNet 3.0
- v. burn slowly and without a flame
- v. have strong suppressed feelings
- n. a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame
Examples
“And no matter how hard she squints her eyes, Danica Patrick cannot 'smoulder'.”
“Then the "$8.00" began to smoulder under his lids again, and he returned himself to servitude.”
“Most of us spend our whole lives fighting the most visible fires, while leaving the most important ones to smoulder unnoticed.”
“We need to be on the down side of the glacial cycle, simple having more squirrels follow the ice line north is now a net loss because we want the ice line to start its return back south, otherwise the planet will smoulder.”
The Saddest Sentence I've Read Today, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“When I was still a child, I discovered a thought that resonated strongly with me: "It is better to shine brightly and then burn out than to slowly smoulder aimlessly.”
“A delicate balance of smoulder and sensitivity that's best experienced on YouTube, where the track has rapidly earned a million views.”
“In the volatile south, tensions between Uzbek and Kyrgyz continue to smoulder.”
The Guardian: Uzbek minority still faces persecution as Kyrgyzstan goes to polls
“Lastly, there are those gases that attack exposed skin, causing it to bubble and smoulder.”
“I use discarded engine oil to make it smoulder more efficiently.”
“It provides an outlet for Cabane, an outlet for those feeling that smoulder here!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘smoulder’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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theastic's Words
cellar, stalemate, wrought, opal, tyrant, squelch, squab, linen, tartan, paisley, scope, siren and 395 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 more...
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KaeZoo's Words
flingers, unhinged, driven, flanked, arboreal, venerable, endearing, iconoclastic, fletcher, competent, fireproof, cavernous and 215 more...
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Tory's First Wordie List
perambulate, mumpsimus, euphoric, peripatetic, mellifluous, soporific, neologism, nihilism, nepotism, effervescent, lascivious, esoteric and 217 more...
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MEC4 Lesson 151
quiz, quiz master, barber, ratings, buzzer, Lake Superior, author, round, Great Lakes, Supreme Court, trick, meteor and 15 more...
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five
this is just a list okay
opium, bramble, rivulet, coulee, smoulder, velvet, veil, ribbon, gin, cognac, schnapps, juniper and 88 more...
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condiment, tortoise shell, virile, wolverine, chyme, aeons, grotesque, pontiferous, blurb, dais, squiffy, decadent and 88 more...
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