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• n  a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame
  the smoulder suddenly became a blaze
• v  have strong suppressed feelings
• v  burn slowly and without a flame

• Volumes of scientific data and rare books smoulder in the library of the Australian National University's historic Mount Stromlo Observatory after a firestorm tore through the .
• But that was not nearly so explosive as the smoulder of Sharon Stone's sexual menace in Basic Instinct.
• Returning, he vilifies the lady's father who has made the match and watched it smoulder because of his own ambitions toward the peerage.

• smolder

News & Articles

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• Johnsonville Big Taste Grill in Town to Benefit United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley
  George Smoulder with the United Way of the Upper of the Ohio Valley says this fundraiser has been successful in raising money every year for the charity.
  July 9, 2013 - WTRF Wheeling

Quotes

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• Adam Shankman in Toronto Star Blogs (blog)
  There was a lot of flash and no smoulder,Adam told him. "That's something you've got to work on."
• Sergey Lavrov in Xinhua
  On the agenda were joining efforts to settle the conflicts continuing to smoulder in the Middle East between the Israelis and the Arabs, the grave situation in Iraq, the Iranian nuclear problem and the situation in Afghanistan,Lavrov said of...
• Colin Jones in BBC Sport
  I always liked to feel my way into a fight and to smoulder for the first few rounds,said Jones. "But when I was doing that in the first he clipped me with a fantastic left hook after feinting the jab - and I was down." "Realising I...