smouldering

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Verb

1. present participle of smoulder#English|smoulder
   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, Guinevere

     Some evil chance / Will make the smouldering scandal break and blaze.

Noun

smouldering (plural smoulderings)

1. (sometimes, figurative) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.

   the smoulderings of the Thirty Years War

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