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Smoulder

🔄 Synonyms of "Smoulder"

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Word	Definition
smolderverb	(intransitive, now US) To burn with no flame and little smoke.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Smoulder"

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Word	Definition
hatchnoun	A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
festerverb	(intransitive) To become septic; to become rotten.
incubateverb	(transitive) To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
smotherverb	(transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
smoornoun	(transitive, obsolete, Scotland) To suffocate, smother, or extinguish
stifleverb	(transitive, also figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
asphyxiateverb	(transitive) To smother or suffocate someone.
smudgenoun	A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
suffocateverb	(ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
strangleverb	(transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
drownverb	(intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
enmuffleverb	(transitive, quite, rare) To muffle.
mufflenoun	Anything that mutes or deadens sound.
mouldernoun	(by extension) A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks, pottery, etc.
unsuffocateverb	To unsmother; to free from suffocation or suffocating circumstances.
choke outverb	(transitive) To cause (a person) to lose consciousness by applying a chokehold.
stiffleverb	Misspelling of stifle. [(transitive, also figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.]
maskernoun	One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade or wears a mask in a ritual.
oppressverb	(transitive) To keep down by unjust force.
swelternoun	Intense heat.