smouldering

alternative smoldering

1. UKBurning 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.

   1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Guinevere”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 229–230

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   The burnt and bleeding man staggered to his feet, dazed and unbelieving, and asked the startled townspeople who came running whether his fireman and guard were safe. He was kept away from the smouldering crater where his engine had been, and taken to hospital.

   2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in Rail, number 948, page 43

plural smoulderings · alternative smoldering

1. figurativelysometimesThe act by which something smoulders; residual heat.

   the smoulderings of the Thirty Years War

alternative smoldering

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of smoulder