| 单词 | smolder |
| 释义 | smolder (once / 4320 pages) vn When a fire is barely burning, it's smoldering. Fires can smolder for days without anyone's knowing, then burst into a conflagration that gets the fire department sirens wailing all over town. Smolder is a word that is often used figuratively to describe situations or people's feelings. You might say tensions between the North and South were smoldering for years before the outbreak of the Civil War, or that the taking away tater tots was like oxygen to the students' smoldering dissatisfaction with food at school. WORD FAMILYsmolder: smoldered, smoldering, smolders+/smoldering: smolderingly USAGE EXAMPLESCentoni spent roughly three hours digging through the smoldering hulk of the massive Ghost Ship. Los Angeles Times(Dec 18, 2016) Eleven vehicles were burned and continued to smolder. Seattle Times(Dec 10, 2016) Piringer says firefighters controlled the blaze, but many remain on the scene as the fire continues to smolder. Washington Times(Dec 09, 2016) 1v burn slowly and without a flame a smoldering fire Syn|Hyper smoulder burn, combust undergo combustion 2v have strong suppressed feelings Syn|Hyper smoulder experience, feel undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind 3n a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame Syn|Hyper smoulder fire the event of something burning (often destructive) |
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