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What does smolder mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word smolder? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive, US) To burn with no flame and little smoke.
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion.
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Once you've chosen your smoking medium, it too needs to be prepared for a long smolder.
Rob can just sort of stand there and look at something and start to smolder.
That means that a chemical reaction creates heat and the rags can begin to smolder and burst into flame.
The embers of his half-smoked cigarette caught the pages of his pilot, which began to smolder and, in time, burn.
She is small and blond and snub-nosed, but she knows how to smolder icily and this dissonance is what makes her special.
The smokestacks from the factories of Tokyo were belching black smolder into already fetid air.

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