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smolder

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈsmoʊldɚ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted delmorsStarts with SEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. burn slowly and without a flame

Word origin

From Middle English smolderen (“to suffocate, stifle”), from Middle English smolder (“smoke, smoky vapour”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *smolōn (“to burn, glow, fume, smoulder”). Related to Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (> English smell).

Used in a sentence

  • The remains of the bonfire were left to smolder for hours.
  • Our quiuering Lances ſhaking in the aire, And bullets like Ioues dreadfull Thunderbolts, Enrolde in flames and fiery ſmoldering miſtes, Shall threat the Gods more than Cyclopian warres, […]
  • Behind him, where the deer had been, smoldered a large circle of grass and trees.

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