Smoldering
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Smoldering \Smol"der*ing\, Smouldering \Smoul"der*ing\, a.
Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead.
[1913 Webster]
Some evil chance
Will make the smoldering scandal break and blaze.
--Tennyson.
[1913 Webster] Smolderingness
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Smolder \Smol"der\, Smoulder \Smoul"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Smoldered}or {Smouldered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smoldering} or
{Smouldering}.] [OE. smolderen; cf. Prov. G. sm["o]len,
smelen, D. smeulen. Cf. {Smell}.]
1. To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow
and supressed combustion.
[1913 Webster]
The smoldering dust did round about him smoke.
--Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
2. To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity;
to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.
[1913 Webster] Smolder
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "smoldering":
abeyant, ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, apathetic,
ardent, blazing, boiling, burning, candent, candescent, cataleptic,
catatonic, comburent, conflagrant, dead, dopey, dormant, dull,
flagrant, flaming, flaring, flat, flickering, foul, fuming,
glowing, groggy, guttering, heavy, het up, hot, ignescent, ignited,
in a blaze, in a glow, in abeyance, in flames, in suspense,
inactive, incandescent, inert, inflamed, kindled, languid,
languorous, latent, leaden, lifeless, live, living, logy, on fire,
passive, phlegmatic, reeking, scintillant, scintillating,
sedentary, seething, simmering, sizzling, slack, sleeping,
sluggish, slumbering, smoking, sparking, stagnant, standing,
static, suspended, tame, torpid, unaroused, unextinguished,
unquenched
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