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SMOLDERING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does smoldering mean?
• SMOLDERING (adjective)
The adjective SMOLDERING has 1 sense:
1. showing scarcely suppressed anger
Familiarity information: SMOLDERING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing scarcely suppressed anger
Synonyms:
smoldering; smouldering
Context example:
her tone was...conversational although...her eyes were smoldering
Similar:
angry (feeling or showing anger)
Context examples
Clinical variants include non-secretory myeloma, smoldering myeloma, indolent myeloma, and plasma cell leukemia.
(Plasma cell myeloma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers peered inside the brains of hundreds of multiple sclerosis patients and found that dark rimmed spots representing ongoing, smoldering inflammation, called chronic active lesions, may be a hallmark of more aggressive and disabling forms of the disease.
(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)
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