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smoldering

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

炽热的,炽热,灼热的,冒烟的

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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

  • Abrams gives good smolder, and Francis is terrific, delivering a breakout performance in a role that could be intensely annoying but that she makes wounded and winning.

  • The escort site Cowboys4Angels peddles chiseled, hot-bodied men and their smoldering model looks to women willing to pay.

  • A patchwork of building shells and cratered streets, the city tells of a cyclical war, still smoldering.

  • While BFF Decker landed the cover, Teigen was named “rookie of the year,” launching her career as a smoldering centerfold.

  • Sculpted, smoldering, and defiant, he is first presented as the natural enemy of Bohannon, a former slave owner.

  • Gus may be smoldering inside, but the only indication the viewer ever gets is through the weight in his eyes.

  • Charred beams and blackened walls showed stark and gaunt in the glow of a smoldering mass of wreckage.

  • He stirred the smoldering ashes till the broiled fowl began to sizzle afresh.

  • They burlesqued womanhood in a way that stirred always a smoldering resentment against them.

  • The waiters were all Martian slaves, he noticed, their phosphorescent owl-eyes smoldering in the dim blue light.

  • In the middle of this higher floor was a smoldering wood fire, from which the smoke had colored the roof timbers a shiny black.