Usually means: Burn slowly with no flame.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. smolder: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. smolder: Merriam-Webster
  3. smolder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. smolder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. smolder: Collins English Dictionary
  6. smolder: Vocabulary.com
  7. Smolder, smolder: Wordnik
  8. smolder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. smolder: Wiktionary
  10. smolder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. smolder (smoulder): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. smolder: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. smolder: Dictionary.com
  14. smolder: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. smolder: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Smolder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Smolder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. smolder: Rhymezone
  19. Smolder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. smolder: FreeDictionary.org
  21. smolder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. smolder: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smolder: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smolder: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smolder: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (intransitive, now US) To burn with no flame and little smoke.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To exist in a suppressed or hidden state.
▸ noun:  The act of smoldering or something that smolders.

Similar:
smoulder, sweal, swither, simmer, smoken, do a slow burn, Siver, flicker, simber, singe, more...

Opposite:
flare

Types:
simmer, seethe, brood, glower, fume, sulk, more...

Adjectives:
slow, only, much, quiet, low, red, constant, forward, mere, silent, faint

Colors:
    charcoal,     ember,     graphite,     onyx,     obsidian, more...


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Similar:
smoulder, sweal, swither, simmer, smoken, do a slow burn, Siver, flicker, simber, singe, more...

Opposite:
flare

Types:
simmer, seethe, brood, glower, fume, sulk, more...

Adjectives:
slow, only, much, quiet, low, red, constant, forward, mere, silent, faint

Colors:
    charcoal,     ember,     graphite,     onyx,     obsidian, more...



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