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smoldering
CIDE DICTIONARY
smoldering, a.
Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead. [1913 Webster]
"Some evil chance
Will make the smoldering scandal break and blaze." [1913 Webster]
Will make the smoldering scandal break and blaze." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
smoldering
abeyant, ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, apathetic, ardent, blazing, boiling, burning, candent, candescent, cataleptic, catatonic, comburent, conflagrant, dead, dopey, dormant, dull, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flat, flickering, foul, fuming, glowing, groggy, guttering, heavy, het up, hot, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze, in a glow, in abeyance, in flames, in suspense, inactive, incandescent, inert, inflamed, kindled, languid, languorous, latent, leaden, lifeless, live, living, logy, on fire, passive, phlegmatic, reeking, scintillant, scintillating, sedentary, seething, simmering, sizzling, slack, sleeping, sluggish, slumbering, smoking, sparking, stagnant, standing, static, suspended, tame, torpid, unaroused, unextinguished, unquenchedROGET THESAURUS
smoldering
Physical Inertness
N physical inertness, inertness, dullness, inertia, vis inertiae, inertion, inactivity, torpor, languor, quiescence, latency, inaction, passivity, mental inertness, sloth, inexcitability, irresolution, obstinacy, permanence, rare gas, paraffin, noble metal, unreactivity, inert, inactive, passive, torpid, sluggish, dull, heavy, flat, slack, tame, slow, blunt, unreactive, lifeless, dead, uninfluential, latent, dormant, smoldering, unexerted, inactively, in suspense, in abeyance.Heat
N heat, caloric, temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity, incalescence, incandescence, glow, flush, fever, hectic, phlogiston, fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze, bonfire, firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny, wildfire, sheet of fire, lambent flame, devouring element, adiathermancy, recalescence, summer, dog days, canicular days, baking, heat, white heat, tropical heat, Afric heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat, sirocco, simoom, broiling sun, insolation, warming, sun, pyrology, thermology, thermotics, thermodynamics, thermometer, calorie, gram-calorie, small calorie, kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie, British Thermal Unit, B, T, U, therm, quad, degrees Kelvin, kelvins, degrees centigrade, degrees Celsius, degrees Fahrenheit, hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen, thermal, thermic, calorific, fervent, fervid, ardent, aglow, sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular, steamy, close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive, reeking, baking, red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning, hot, piping hot, like a furnace, like an oven, burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper, hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg, fiery, incandescent, incalescent, candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking, live, on fire, dazzling, in flames, blazing, in a blaze, alight, afire, ablaze, unquenched, unextinguished, smoldering, in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat, sudorific, sweltering, sweltered, blood hot, blood warm, warm as a toast, warm as wool, volcanic, plutonic, igneous, isothermal, isothermic, isotheral, not a breath of air, whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.For further exploring for "smoldering" in Webster Dictionary Online