verb
definition
To burn with no flame and little smoke.
definition
To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion.
definition
To exist in a suppressed or hidden state.
Examples of smolder in a Sentence
Fire can flame without warning or smolder to an ember if neglected.
Never leave your fire to smolder for long periods.
Fire can spread fast, but it can also smolder slowly and silently with insidious fumes killing many people in their sleep.
It can quietly smolder out of sight, starting a slow, deadly fire.
And it can smolder for a long time before a serious fire starts.
The ovens provide for warmth and cooking, burning dried cakes of cattle dung mixed with straw, which will smolder for hours.
It might have come from the center of the world, this smoke, where the fires of the ages still smolder.
If you let your dhoop incense smolder, your cone will probably burn like this, for about 30 minutes.
Do not fling cigarette butts over the side, either, because they can be blown onto a balcony or another deck where they may smolder.
While the relationship may never smolder in the bedroom, these independent signs may end up spending so much time on other interests that they never regroup together.