smolder
verb (used without object)
to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
have smoldered
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present perfectof smolder.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Without him, the genre may have smoldered for decades more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2018
On paper, Gwyneth Paltrow seemed to make the perfect Sylvia Plath, and Daniel Craig should have smoldered as Ted Hughes.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 12, 2010
Doubts about the future of the American effort in Iraq have smoldered at a low burn for months, rising and falling in intensity with the undulations of the U.S. death rate.
From Time Magazine Archive
They certainly did not want to burn the shop, for that pile of rags could have smoldered all day on the concrete floor, without doing any harm.
From Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera, or, Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving Pictures by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
You are given the crowded action, the unleashing of emotions and temperaments that have smoldered long under the blanket of solitary living.
From The Ranch at the Wolverine by B. M. Bower
