Smoulder
['sməʊldə]
Definition
(noun.) a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame; 'the smoulder suddenly became a blaze'.
Typed by Carolyn--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.
(v. i.) To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.
(v. t.) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.
(n.) Smoke; smother.
(v. i.) See Smolder.
Edited by Dorothy
Definition
v.i. to burn slowly or without vent.—adjs. Smoul′dring Smoul′dry.
Editor: Tamara
Examples
- On the bright hill-sides was a subdued smoulder of gorse. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The spark may smoulder and go out, or it may glow and expand, but see! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- An explosion of a smouldering volcano long suppressed, was the result of an internal contest more easily conceived than described. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Markest thou the smouldering and suffocating vapour which already eddies in sable folds through the chamber? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The women went off to their cabins, and Tom sat alone, by the smouldering fire, that flickered up redly in his face. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A fine sight, the grand house in flames, and the madman's wife smouldering away to cinders. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In Brazil the juice is collected in clay vessels and smoked and dried in a smouldering fire of palm nuts, which gives the material its dark brown appearance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But it would seem as easy to wake a bundle of old clothes with a spirituous heat smouldering in it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The brightness of the glare faded--the steam rose in white clouds, and the smouldering heaps of embers showed red and black through it on the floor. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The eternal cigarette smouldered in his mouth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Edited by Hattie