Smolder

Definition: Smolder

Smolder

Verb

1. Burn slowly and without without a flame; "a smoldering fire".

2. Have strong suppressed feelings.

Date "smolder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1887. (references)

Synonym: Smolder

Synonym: smoulder (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Heat	Verb: be hot. Adjective: glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch, fume, pant.
Latency Implication	Verb: be latent; Adjective: lurk, smolder, underlie, make no sign; escape observation, escape detection, escape recognition; lie hid.
Physical Inertness	Verb: be -inert; Adjective: hang fire, smolder.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past (32 Flavors; performing artist: Alana Davis)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	And the men looked up for a second, and the smolder of pain was in their eyes.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The following table summarizes the usage of "smolder" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Smolder	Last name	200	36,806
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "smolder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zjarr pa flakë (smoulder), digjem në vetvete (smoulder), digjem në hi (smoulder). (various references)

Arabic		‏كمن (ambuscade, ambush, dwell, lie in wait, position, reside, smoulder, waylay), ‏نم عن غضب (smoulder), ‏غطى (cap, coat, cover, encase, face, invest, line, litter, mantle, mask, mat, pall, paper, plaster, roof, sheathe, sheet, shield, smoulder, tuck, wrap), ‏خنق بالدخان (smother, smoulder), ‏إستكن (settle down, smoulder), ‏أخمد (dampen, die out, expire, fall, hush, lay, muffle, oppress, put out, quench, scotch, slake, smoulder, squelch, stifle, subside, suppress, trail off), ‏دخان كثيف (smother, smoulder), ‏دخان (fume, reek, smoke, smoulder). (various references)

Bulgarian		тая се (lurk), тлея (smoulder), тлеещ огън (smoulder), тлеене (smoulder), пуша (fume, puff at, reek, smoke, smoulder, whiff). (various references)

Czech		doutnat, èadit (reek, smoke). (various references)

Farsi		سوختن ودودکردن(smoulder), خفه کردن (Asphyxiate, Choke, Extinguish, Mute, Scrag, Shutup, Smother, Squash, Stifle, Strangle, Strangulate, Suffocate, Throttle), خاموش کردن (Extinguish, Hush, Out, Quench, Smother, Stanch, Stifle, Suffocate), بی اتش سوختن . (various references)

German		glimmen (fluoresce, glimmer, glow, smoulder, to smoulder). (various references)

Greek		καίω χωρίσ φλόγα (smoulder), σιγοκαίω (smoulder), υποκαίω (foment, smoulder). (various references)

Hungarian		parázslik (glow, smoulder, to glow, to smolder, to smother, to smoulder), hamvad (smoulder, to smolder, to smoulder). (various references)

Italian		covare sotto la cenere (smoulder), bruciare senza fiamma (smoulder). (various references)

Pig Latin		oldersmay

Portuguese		estar latente (smoulder), arder sem chama (smoulder), arder a fogo lento (smoulder). (various references)

Romanian		mocni (simmer, smoulder), arde încet (smoulder). (various references)

Russian		тлеть (smoulder). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tinjati (smoulder), tinjanje (smoulder). (various references)

Spanish		estar latente (smoulder), arder sin llama (smoulder). (various references)

Swedish		pyra (smoulder). (various references)

Thai		ไหม้ช้าๆ โ�"ยไม่มีเปลวไฟ แต่มีควัน. (various references)

Turkish		içten içe olmak (smoulder), için için yanmak (rankle, smoulder), için için yanan ateş (smoulder), dumansız yanmak (smoulder). (various references)

Ukrainian		тліючий вогонь (smoulder), тліти (smoulder), задушливий дим (smoulder, smudge), жевріти (smoulder). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự cháy âm ỉ (smoulder). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "smolder": smoldered, smoldering, smolders. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Smolder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sholder, smold, smoldery, smolter. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "smolder" (pronounced smō"lder)
5	-m ō" l d er	molder, moulder.
4	-ō" l d er	beholder, bolder, boulder, colder, folder, Golder, Holder, older, polder, shoulder.
3	-l d er	Alder, balder, bewilder, bondholder, builder, cardholder, elder, fielder, freeholder, Gelder, Gilder, guilder, householder, infielder, landholder, melder, milder, officeholder, outfielder, policyholder, shareholder, shipbuilder, stakeholder, stockholder, titleholder, welder, wilder.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: molders, remolds.
	Words within the letters "d-e-l-m-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: dorsel, models, molder, morels, morsel, remold, resold, seldom, solder.
	-2 letters: demos, derms, doers, doles, domes, dorms, doser, lodes, lords, lores, loser, melds, merls, model, modes, molds, moles, morel, mores, morse, older, omers, orles, redos, resod, roles, rosed, soled, sorel.
	-3 letters: dels, demo, derm, doer, does, dole, dols, dome, doms, dore, dorm, dors, dose.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-l-m-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: earldoms, modelers, morseled, moulders, premolds, remodels, smolders, smoulder.
	+2 letters: clerkdoms, gladsomer, hydromels, lemuroids, modellers, moralised, morselled, rebeldoms, remolades, smoldered, smoulders.
	+3 letters: blastoderm, bromeliads, demiworlds, demolisher, dulcimores, formalised, glamorised, loadmaster, loxodromes, melodizers, melodramas, mesodermal, miscolored, mislabored, normalised, romeldales, slipformed, smoldering, smouldered, supermodel, velodromes.
	+4 letters: blastoderms, bloodstream, camelopards, chrysomelid, coromandels, demolishers, demoralizes, dreamworlds, loadmasters, meadowlarks, meridionals, middlebrows, mindblowers, misenrolled, mortadellas, motherlands, murderously, overmuscled, palindromes, phelloderms, polymerised, scleroderma, smallholder, smouldering, steamrolled, supermodels.
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