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smolder

or ²õ³¾´Ç³Ü±ô·»å±ð°ù

[ smohl-der ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
  2. to exist or continue in a suppressed state or without outward demonstration:

    Hatred smoldered beneath a polite surface.

  3. to display repressed feelings, as of indignation, anger, or the like:

    to smolder with rage.



noun

  1. dense smoke resulting from slow or suppressed combustion.
  2. a smoldering fire.

smolder

/ ˈ²õ³¾É™ÊŠ±ô»åÉ™ /

verb

  1. the US spelling of smoulder
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of smolder1

1275–1325; (noun) Middle English smolder smoky vapor, dissimilated variant of smorther smother; (v.) Middle English (as present participle smolderende ), derivative of the noun
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How a 30-year-old singer, born in Argentina and raised in Spain, manages to channel the smoldering melodrama of Latin music’s golden era with such uncanny precision remains a bit of a mystery.

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A thin, rusty coil of sun smoldered through a patch in the clouds.

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He passed through residential neighborhoods, where flames still spewed from the severed gas lines of smoldering homes, and ash rained from the sky.

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Six days earlier, on New Year’s Day, a small blaze had been extinguished there but might have left smoldering embers hidden in the undergrowth, the former chiefs said.

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Just five weeks ago, Pacific Coast Highway was smoldering from one of the most destructive firestorms in Los Angeles County history, with burned-out shells where scores of oceanside homes once stood.

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