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smoldering

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smoldering

[ adj ]
showing scarcely suppressed anger
<adj.all>
her tone was...conversational although...her eyes were smoldering

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.

Smoldering \Smol"der*ing\, Smouldering \Smoul"der*ing\, a.
Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead.

Some evil chance
Will make the smoldering scandal break and blaze.
--Tennyson.

Bruce Sutton said firefighters "have no reason to believe it was anything but an accident." "We believe it was caused by a smoldering cigarette, but we took all kinds of samples from the house and have sent them to the lab," Sutton said.
The fire was still smoldering early today, and authorities said it would be some time before investigators determined the cause. Walker said a crane would be used to pull the wreckage apart Tuesday.
One fire grew to 935 acres Monday while smoldering brush on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation re-ignited and consumed 146 acres. A blaze near John Day had destroyed 880 acres, according to state and federal fire managers.
Except for a smoldering insurgency in Guatemala, Central America is at peace.
There is a burning in her chest, a smoldering fire in a woodstove.
Han is a uniquely South Korean word that can be roughly defined as a deep, smoldering resentment.
Or what looks like a clump of wet sand in the form of a tiny smoldering volcano.
Fire bosses set up a command post in the tiny Columbia River town of Entiat, while helicopters dipped huge buckets into the river and then dumped water on the steep smoldering hillsides above town.
Four members of a Charlotte family died and three others were injured in a New Year's Day fire blamed on smoldering smoking materials in their cinder-block house, fire officials said.
But her album of smoldering rock tunes reached gold status (500,000 sales) when word spread of her bracing live performances.
Finally they move through the smoky forest, crushing hot coals, chopping up burning trees and burying smoldering logs, eventually trudging out of the wilderness with up to 100 pounds of gear on their backs.
Hundreds of burned-out cars lay smoldering on streets littered with broken glass and severed power cables.
Baker met with Bush that evening and discussed the smoldering controversy, aides said.
Resentments are smoldering in the Islamic republics and could burst into flames at any moment.
Several hours after the crash, broken limbs and branches surrounded the smoldering wreckage and small fires continued to burn, although they were later extinguished.
Captain Hugo Larsen was on the bridge of the 10,500-ton ferry as the smoldering ship was towed into harbor at dusk on Saturday.
When it appeared most of the civilians had left, government forces subjected Zacamil to a six-hour barrage of bazookas, rockets and cannon fire that left the complex smoldering and practically ruined.
Body-skimming softness or smoldering black lace, organza and raffia took over for after-hours when feminine turns female.
At least 1,000 people have died. Scores of villages are smoldering ghost towns.
But as Bell crews examined the smoldering cables and water-damaged electronics, the picture became much clearer _ and very bleak.
In San Francisco, firefighters removed what they first thought was the body of a baby discovered Saturday in the smoldering remains of a fire in the Marina district.
Residents hosed down the roofs of their homes just north of the county line, and charred trees and smoldering brush lined the coastal highay.
A fire in a linen closet sent smoke through three floors of the high-rise Wilshire Hyatt Hotel, forcing 350 people to evacuate before firefighters doused the smoldering blaze.
To guarantee that, however, Turkey must contain the biggest political threat, a smoldering Kurdish insurgency. Failure to do so could bring anything from social unrest to civil war.
Hundreds of people huddled around collections of personal belongings, including refrigerators, furniture and televisions sets, on the sides of a narrow, mud-covered street separating the smoldering shantytown from the petroleum compound.
Resident, Otis Bell, 51, said tensions have been smoldering since the 1987 death of Melvin Hair, a black man who died after a policeman responding to a domestic dispute applied a since-banned choke hold to subdue him.
"The fire was just kind of smoldering," he said.
The court did not again rule a law unconstitutional for more than half a century, but when it did it added fuel to the smoldering controversy that would blaze into Civil War.
If this proves possible, it will be a breakthrough in fighting AIDS infection and other slowly smoldering viruses.
"Nobody expected it to come in fast like this," said Mike Fitzgerald, 38, said as he cut down a large, smoldering tree in his yard.

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