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• n  a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame
• v  burn slowly and without a flame
  a smoldering fire
• v  have strong suppressed feelings

• And the embers from more than 5,500 fires still smolder, metaphorically -- as George Bush found out touring the riot areas last week.
• Conflicting impulses of race, sex and violence smolder throughout the Frank Nugent script, and on Wayne's implacable face, in an epic that spans five years of brutal winters and .
• His statement from the dock was destined to smolder in the homes and servant quarters, the shacks and shebeens and huts and hovels of the oppressed, and to burn in the conscience .

• smoulder

News & Articles

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• Indy fire burns for hours, sparks evacs
  A warehouse fire that began just before 1 p.m. Saturday was brought under control after nearly eight hours, though hot spots could continue to smolder for several days, fire investigators said.
  June 16, 2013 - WCPO Cincinnati
• Evacuations end for area around Indy building fire
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Hundreds of people were allowed to return to their homes Sunday morning as Indianapolis firefighters watched over the smoldering ruins of a sprawling warehouse where a fire had unleashed a tower of billowing black smoke, raising concerns over possible toxins.
  June 16, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Evacuations lifted after warehouse fire
  A warehouse fire that began just before 1 p.m. Saturday was brought under control after nearly eight hours, though hot spots could continue to smolder for several days, fire investigators said.
  June 15, 2013 - WRTV Indianapolis

Quotes

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• Alistair Darling in BusinessWeek
  UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said "as long as this problem is allowed to continue to smolder it will hold back peoples' confidence in the ability of Europe to come through the recession."
• President Bush in CNN
  A pandemic is a lot like a forest fire,Bush said. "If caught early, it might be extinguished with limited damage; if allowed to smolder undetected, it can grow to an inferno that spreads quickly beyond our ability to control it."
• Adam Shankman in QS (blog)
  It was all flash and no smolder,said judge Adam Shankman.