smoulder

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Verb

smoulder (smoulders, present participle smouldering; past and past participle smouldered)

1. (intransitive, chiefly British) Alternative form of smolder
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI

     Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire. Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this again rarely results in flames.

2. (obsolete) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.

Noun

smoulder

1. (obsolete) smoke; smother

   • The smoulder stops our nose with stench.

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