smolder

Meanings

Verb

• To burn with no flame and little smoke.
• To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion.
• To exist in a suppressed or hidden state.

Noun

• The act of smoldering or something that smolders.

Origin

• From Middle English smolderen, from Middle English smolder, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *smolōn. Related to Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (> English smell).