Smolder

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: smol=der

CIDE DICTIONARY

Smolder, v. i. [OE. smolderen; cf. Prov. G. smölen, smelen, D. smeulen. Cf. Smell.].

•  To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.  [1913 Webster]

  "The smoldering dust did round about him smoke."  [1913 Webster]
•  To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.  [1913 Webster]

Smolder, v. t. 

 To smother; to suffocate; to choke.  Holinshed. Palsgrave.  [1913 Webster]

Smolder, n. 

 Smoke; smother.  [1913 Webster]
"The smolder stops our nose with stench."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Smolder, US var. of SMOULDER.

THESAURUS

Smolder

bake, be angry, be excitable, be in heat, be latent, be livid, be pissed, bellow, blaze, bloom, blow a gasket, blow up, bluster, boil, broil, browned off, bubble, burn, burst, carry on, catch fire, catch the infection, chafe, choke, churn, combust, come apart, cook, erupt, escape notice, excite easily, explode, ferment, fire up, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flash up, flicker, flip, flush, fret, fry, fulminate, fume, fust, gasp, get excited, glow, go into hysterics, go on, hang fire, have a conniption, have a tantrum, hibernate, hit the ceiling, idle, incandesce, lie beneath, lie dormant, lie hid, lie low, lurk, make no sign, moil, pant, parch, pissed off, radiate heat, rage, raise Cain, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, ramp, rant, rant and rave, rave, roast, run a temperature, scald, scorch, seethe, shimmer with heat, simmer, sizzle, sleep, slumber, smoke, smother, spark, stagnate, steam, stew, stifle, stir, storm, suffocate, sweat, swelter, take fire, take on, throw a fit, toast, turn a hair, underlie, vegetate

ROGET THESAURUS

Smolder

Physical Inertness

VB be inert, hang fire, smolder.

Heat

VB be hot, glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame, smolder, parch, fume, pant, heat, recalesce, thaw, give.

Implication

VB be latent, lurk, smolder, underlie, make no sign, escape observation, escape detection, escape recognition, lie hid, laugh in one's sleeve, keep back, involve, imply, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference, entail, whisper, read between the lines.