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smolder

/smohl-der/US // ˈsmoʊl dər //UK // (ˈsməʊldə) //

熏蒸,熏陶,熏制,熏烤

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
    • : to exist or continue in a suppressed state or without outward demonstration: Hatred smoldered beneath a polite surface.
    • : to display repressed feelings, as of indignation, anger, or the like: to smolder with rage.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : dense smoke resulting from slow or suppressed combustion.
    • : a smoldering fire.

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Examples

  • He is a very attractive man with a very nice chiseled jaw and a very pleasant smolder.

  • This imagery shows SAF troops on the scene as huts smolder in the aftermath of their assault.

  • The embers of guilt over the entire episode are placed deep within Hilly, where it will smolder for the rest of his life.

  • Nevertheless, it continues to smolder away in Chicago, posing a potential threat to the Obama administration.

  • Arson…Whole streets of tenements and warehouses abandoned to smolder.

  • It was a brief task to gather the wood and then Ross and Shif'less Sol lighted the fire, which they permitted merely to smolder.

  • When the cooking was finished the logs were drawn back a few inches and the fire went down to coals, but continued to smolder.

  • He had known how to light a fire that would smolder long enough for him to get away.

  • The stump will burn and smolder to the end of the roots, leaving nothing but ashes.

  • On the narrow beach, with its background of new growth, smolder the dying embers of a camp-fire.