Smoldering

verb

Word Frequency: 0.7

Definitions

1.verbTo burn with no flame and little smoke.

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

3.verbTo exist in a suppressed or hidden state.

4.noun(sometimes figurative) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.

"the smoulderings of the Thirty Years War"

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