Smolder \Smol"der\, Smoulder \Smoul"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Smoldered}or {Smouldered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smoldering} or {Smouldering}.] [OE. smolderen; cf. Prov. G. sm["o]len, smelen, D. smeulen. Cf. {Smell}.] 1. To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.
The smoldering dust did round about him smoke. --Spenser.
2. To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.
Smolder \Smol"der\, Smoulder \Smoul"der\, v. t. To smother; to suffocate; to choke. [Obs.] --Holinshed. Palsgrave.
Smolder \Smol"der\, Smoulder \Smoul"der\, n. Smoke; smother. [Obs.]
The smolder stops our nose with stench. --Gascoigne.
Such a device would smolder for a time before bursting into flame.
Although rubble continued to smolder, the studio's popular tram tour went ahead as scheduled Wednesday morning, a day after the wind-driven fire.
The fires are out in Kiev but the questions still smolder.
Because of the summer blaze that ravaged much of the oldest national park, his once-bright future seems as cloudy as the pall of smoke over Yellowstone, where fires continue to smolder.