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smolderingadjectiveor smouldering being on fire with no visible flames but often with much smokeAll that was left of the campfire were smoldering embers. aglow, flaring, flickering, glowing, liveablaze, afire, aflame, alight(chiefly British), blazing, burning, combusting, conflagrant, fiery, flaming, ignited, inflamed(also enflamed), kindled, lit(or lighted)broiling, hot, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzlingburned(or burnt), charred, incinerated, scorched, seared, singed choked, damped, dead, doused(also dowsed), extinguished, quenched, smothered, snuffed (out), stamped (out), suffocated smolderingverbor smoulderingpresent participle of smolderto be excited or emotionally stirred up with angerShe smoldered when first learning of her son's misbehavior at school, but had calmed down by the time he arrived home. burning, foaming, seething, steamingblowing up, flaring (up), flipping (out)(slang)angering, snapping, snarling, sputtering, teeing off, venting, vituperatingbristling, fuming, raging, stormingblustering, carrying on, fulminating, rampaging, ranting, raving, taking onchafing, fretting, stewing allaying, appeasing, pacifying, soothingchecking, choking (back), collecting, composing, containing, curbing, pocketing, reining, repressing, restraining, smothering, stifling, strangling, subduing, suppressing, swallowingmoderating, tempering, toning (down)easing, letting up, relaxingcalming, cooling, hushing, quelling, quieting, settling, stilling to be on fire usually with smoke but few flamesThey look forward to those long summer nights telling stories beside a smoldering campfire. blazing, burning, combusting, flaming, glowingsparking, sputteringcatching, enkindlingdeflagrating, firing, igniting, kindlingflaring (up), lighting (up)flickering, guttering, waveringbaking, broiling, charring, cooking, melting, roasting, scorching, swelteringbeaming, brightening, radiatingbeating (down), flashing, glaring, gleaming, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glittering, scintillating, shimmering, shining, sparkling, twinkling extinguishingdarkening, dimming |