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Smouldering

To burn with no flame and little smoke.

📖 Definitions of "Smouldering"

verb
  1. 1

    To burn with no flame and little smoke.

  2. 2

    To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion.

  3. 3

    To exist in a suppressed or hidden state.

verb
  1. 1

    To smother; to suffocate; to choke.

noun
  1. 1

    (sometimes figurative) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.

    "the smoulderings of the Thirty Years War"

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