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smouldering

adjective smoldering

  1. UK Burning slowly, producing smoke but no flame. And if we meet again, some evil chance / Will make the smouldering scandal break and blaze / Before the people, and our lord the King.

noun smoulderings · smoldering

  1. figuratively, sometimes The act by which something smoulders; residual heat. the smoulderings of the Thirty Years War

verb smoldering

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of smoulder

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@misc{smouldering_2026,
  title = {smouldering},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/smouldering},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}