smoulder

English

Verb

smoulder (third-person singular simple present smoulders, present participle smouldering, simple past and past participle smouldered)

1. (intransitive, chiefly British) Alternative form of smolder
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI

     Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire. Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this again rarely results in flames.

2. (obsolete) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.

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Noun

smoulder

1. (obsolete) smoke; smother
   • Gascoigne

     The smoulder stops our nose with stench.

Anagrams

• R-modules, moulders, remoulds