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SMOULDERING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing scarcely suppressed anger
Example:
her tone was...conversational although...her eyes were smoldering
Synonyms:
smoldering; smouldering
Classified under:
Similar:
angry (feeling or showing anger)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb smoulder
Context examples:
Near the horizon the sun was smouldering dimly, almost obscured by formless mists and vapors, which gave an impression of mass and density without outline or tangibility.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Our effects were scattered in wild confusion over the ground; my comrades had disappeared, and close to the smouldering ashes of our fire the grass was stained crimson with a hideous pool of blood.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She said it with a taunting pride in the midst of her frenzy—for it was little less—yet with an eager remembrance of it, in which the smouldering embers of a gentler feeling kindled for the moment.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
