The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smolder \Smol"der\, Smoulder \Smoul"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smolderedor Smouldered; p. pr. & vb. n. Smoldering or Smouldering.] [OE. smolderen; cf. Prov. G. sm["o]len, smelen, D. smeulen. Cf. Smell.]
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To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.
The smoldering dust did round about him smoke.
--Spenser. To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.
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vb. (en-past of: smoulder)
Usage examples of "smouldered".
He could discriminate among the rare viands of the elves, the liquid fires which smouldered in spider-shrouded bottles beneath the castle, but for all that his taste for the hunter's black bread and salt meat, or the rainy sunny earthy savour of berries, or upland springs, was not blunted.
In the moongladed bay, hulks of troll vessels smouldered or lay driven on to the strand and broken.
So it was with the hut of Annlaw, which still smouldered, its ruins open to the sky.
Some of the branches still burned, others smouldered, and a gray mist of smoke hung in the air.
Rollason, the Superintendent, rarely smiled, possibly on account of the eternal cigarette which smouldered between his thick lips, depositing ash at intervals down his worn brown waistcoat.
Despite the spring warmth outside, fires smouldered in each to drive off the damp.
To keep the air dry in Cannobaen's fogs, a peat fire smouldered in the hearth, but a few of the oldest books smelled of mildew nonetheless.
A low fire smouldered in the hearth, and candles blazed in their wall sconces.