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is smouldering

  • present progressive
    of smoulder (3rd person singular).
    smoulder
    verb (used without object)
    smolder.

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The grass is smouldering before a marshal appears with a fire extinguisher to put it out completely.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2024

Here he is, smouldering wistfully into the middle distance.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2020

Yet, when a member of this class is smouldering in his own wrath, it is proposed to meet his sullenness by casting him out of our friendship.

From Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

The fire that now is smouldering Shall be the conflagration soon  Whose paths are strewn With torment of blanched lips and eyes  That agonize.

From Poems by Alan Seeger

All the west is smouldering red; Embers are the stars o'erhead.

From One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue by Julius Madison Cawein