Definitions for smolder

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smolder smol·der

Spelling: [smohl-der]

IPA: /ˈsmoʊl dər/

Smolder is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 243 anagrams from letters in smolder (delmors).

Definitions for smolder

noun

1. dense smoke resulting from slow or suppressed combustion.
2. a smoldering fire.

verb (used without object)

1. to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
2. to exist or continue in a suppressed state or without outward demonstration:
3. to display repressed feelings, as of indignation, anger, or the like:

Origin of smolder

1275-1325; (noun) Middle English smolder smoky vapor, dissimilated variant of smorther smother; (v.) Middle English (as present participle smolderende), derivative

Examples for smolder

Conan's eyes began to smolder ominously, but he trod warily into the chamber, his sword ready.

For a Zamboulan dancer to blush would be an impossibility, but a smolder of anger mingled with the fear in Zabibi's dilated eyes.

The decks of the Savissan craft were beginning to smolder, and her arrow fire was weakening.

Rob can just sort of stand there and look at something and start to smolder.

Nevertheless, it continues to smolder away in Chicago, posing a potential threat to the Obama administration.

She watched the thin paper curl and smolder among the smoking embers of last night's blaze.

The flame of discontent, nevertheless, continued to smolder.

Arson…Whole streets of tenements and warehouses abandoned to smolder.

There was no longer a smolder in Latisan—it was all a red flame!

The embers of guilt over the entire episode are placed deep within Hilly, where it will smolder for the rest of his life.