Smouldering

Definition: Smouldering

Smouldering

Adjective

1. Showing scarcely suppressed anger; "her tone was...conversational although...her eyes were smoldering"- James Hensel.

2. Burning slowly without flame; "smoldering embers".

Date "smouldering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonym: Smouldering

Synonym: smoldering (adj). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: smouldered (mechanical engineering, meteorology & standardsenvironment, meteorology & standards).

Crosswords: Smouldering

English words defined with "smouldering": coal ♦ ember ♦ smoulder. (references)

Specialty definitions using "smouldering": Coals. (references)

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Smouldering Fires (1925)

The Smouldering Flame (1916)

Smouldering Fires (1915)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A smouldering land : lessons from the Philippines (reference) Jane Chambers' Burning : a smouldering novel of lust and love that transcends centuries! (reference) Smouldering Charcoal (African Writers Series) (reference) Smouldering Fire (reference) Smouldering Fire [LARGE PRINT] (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Smouldering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 60.63% of the time. "Smouldering" is used about 127 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	60.63%	77	37,929
Adjective (general or positive)	33.86%	43	52,181
Noun (proper)	3.15%	4	175,879
Noun (singular)	2.36%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	127	N/A

Expression using "smouldering": smouldering fire. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "smouldering": flat-smouldering, long-smouldering, still-smouldering, well-smouldering.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "smouldering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		që digjet në vetvete (smoldering). (various references)

Bulgarian		тлеещ (smoldering). (various references)

Chinese		闷燃 (smoulder, Smouldered). (various references)

Danish		gloedebrand (smoldering fire, smouldering fire). (various references)

Dutch		smeulend vuur (hangover fire, holdover fire, sleeper fire, smoldering fire, smouldering fire). (various references)

Finnish		kytevä palo (creeping fire, hangover fire, holdover fire, sleeper fire, smoldering fire, smoulder, smouldering fire). (various references)

French		fumant (smoking, smoky), feu qui couve, feu couvrant. (various references)

German		schwelend, glimmend (fluorescent, smoldering). (various references)

Greek		υποβόσκουσα πυρκαϊά (hangover fire, holdover fire, sleeper fire, smoldering fire, smoulder, smouldering fire). (various references)

Hungarian		parázsló (smoldering), parázslás (glow), lappangó (larval, latent, potential), izzó (annealing, coruscating, flagrant, glowing, incandescent, white hot), hamvadozó, füstölés (burn, cure, curing, fumigation). (various references)

Italian		incendio latente (hangover fire, holdover fire, sleeper fire, smoldering fire, smouldering fire), incendio dormiente (hangover fire, holdover fire, sleeper fire, smoldering fire, smouldering fire), fuoco latente (smoldering fire, smouldering fire). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		余燼 (embers, smouldering fire). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		よじ�" (aftereffects, embers, other people, others, smouldering fire, trailing dust). (various references)

Korean		�"음. (various references)

Manx		smoghaney (linger, linger as smell, smoulder), smoghaneagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		oulderingsmay

Portuguese		que arde sem chama (smoldering), que arde a fogo lento (smoldering), num estado de latência (smoldering), latente (latent, smoldering). (various references)

Romanian		mocnit (dark, dull, gloomy, reticent, smoldering, taciturn), înãbuşit (muffled, pent up, restrained, smoldering, thumping). (various references)

Russian		тлеющий (smoldering). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tinjajući (smoldering). (various references)

Spanish		que arde lentamente, latente (delitescent, dormant, latent, secret, undercover). (various references)

Swedish		pyrande. (various references)

Ukrainian		тліючий (smoldering). (various references)

Vietnamese		nung nấu, âm ỉ (latent, obstreperous). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-l-m-n-o-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: mouldering, mudslinger, smoldering.
	-2 letters: delousing, groundsel, gueridons, guildsmen, indulgers, lemuroids, modelings, moldering, morseling, mouldings, remolding, soldering, ungodlier.
	-3 letters: delusion, dimerous, dourines, drumlins, emulsion, emulsoid, goldurns, gomerils, gremlins, guerdons, gueridon, guilders, indulger, indulges, insouled, legumins, lemuroid, ligneous, lordings, loungers, mendigos, minglers, misenrol, mislodge, misruled, modeling, moldings, mongrels, monsieur, moulders, mouldier, moulding, negroids, reluming, resoling.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-l-m-n-o-r-s-u"
	+3 letters: bildungsromane.
	+5 letters: curmudgeonliness.
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