SMOULDERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smouldering mean? 

• SMOULDERING (adjective)
  The adjective SMOULDERING has 1 sense:

1. showing scarcely suppressed anger

  Familiarity information: SMOULDERING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMOULDERING (adjective)

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 

From below the two glowing ends of their cigars might have been the smouldering eyes of some malignant fiend looking down in the darkness.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My last glance showed me the unconscious Summerlee, most futile of sentinels, still nodding away like a queer mechanical toy in front of the smouldering fire.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When he had gathered a heap he built a fire,—a smouldering, smudgy fire,—and put a tin pot of water on to boil.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The latter was blinking in the bright light of the corridor, and peering at us and at the smouldering fire.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The damp straw of the mattress, fired from beneath and denied air, had been smouldering all the while.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

An explosion of a smouldering volcano long suppressed, was the result of an internal contest more easily conceived than described.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Flinging his brands at the nearest of his enemies, the man thrust his smouldering mittens into the snow and stamped about to cool his feet.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was red and hot, and now and again it was a little darkened—as it were, the embers of a bonfire smouldering.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But it took a subtler insight to read the grim smile which flickered over the smith’s mouth, or the smouldering fire which shone in his grey eyes, and it was only the old-timers who knew that, with his mighty heart and his iron frame, he was a perilous man to lay odds against.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What smouldering fire of vengeance had suddenly sprung into flame in this passionate Celtic woman’s soul when she saw the man who had wronged her—wronged her, perhaps, far more than we suspected—in her power?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)