smolder - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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- smoulder (chiefly British)
From Middle English smolderen (“to suffocate, stifle”), from Middle English smolder (“smoke, smoky vapour”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *smolōn (“to burn, glow, fume, smoulder”). Related to Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (> English smell).
smolder (third-person singular simple present smolders, present participle smoldering, simple past and past participle smoldered)
- (intransitive, now US) To burn with no flame and little smoke.
The remains of the bonfire were left to smolder for hours.
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:
Our quiuering Lances ſhaking in the aire,
And bullets like Ioues dreadfull Thunderbolts,
Enrolde in flames and fiery ſmoldering miſtes,
Shall threat the Gods more than Cyclopian warres, […]
- (intransitive, figuratively) To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To exist in a suppressed or hidden state.
to burn with no flame and little smoke
- Afrikaans: smeul
- Belarusian: тлець impf (tljecʹ)
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: ӗн (ĕn)
- Czech: doutnat (cs)
- Dutch: smeulen (nl)
- Esperanto: subbruli, bruleti
- Finnish: kyteä (fi)
- French: se consumer (fr), couver (fr)
- German: schwelen (de), glimmen (de)
- Greek: σιγοκαίω (el) (sigokaío), υποκαίω (ypokaío), καίω χωρίς φλόγα (kaío chorís flóga)
- Ancient Greek: σμύχω (smúkhō)
- Hungarian: parázslik (hu)
- Ido: bruletar (io)
- Italian: ardere (it)
- Latvian: gruzdēt (lv)
- Maori: ponguru, popō, mohu, torohū
- Occitan: sumir, coar (oc)
- Polish: tleć impf, tlić się (pl) impf
- Portuguese: queimar/arder (sem chama)
- Quechua: hapuy
- Russian: тлеть (ru) impf (tletʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: cnàmh-loisg
- Spanish: arder [sin flama]
- Swedish: pyra (sv)
- Ukrainian: тлі́ти (uk) impf (tlíty), же́вріти impf (žévrity)
- Volapük: smolön (vo)
smolder (plural smolders)
- The act of smoldering or something that smolders.
2021 September 16, A. A. Dowd, “Dan Stevens as a dashing robot lover? That computes”, in AV Club[1]:
And she’s got a great scene partner in Stevens, refining his star power into a just slightly, almost imperceptibly mechanical approximation of Don Juan smolder. He lets us admire the interface and still see the code ticking away underneath it.