smouldering

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If a fire is still smouldering, you barely need any fuel to get it going again.

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Quick take

(sometimes figuratively) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(sometimes figuratively) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.

adjective

(British spelling) Burning slowly, producing smoke but no flame.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for smouldering.

noun

(sometimes figuratively) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.

adjective

(British spelling) Burning slowly, producing smoke but no flame.

Example sentences

If a fire is still smouldering, you barely need any fuel to get it going again.

The US economy tends to crash into a smouldering ruin on the tiniest fluctuation in the inputs.

Not exactly easy to deal with a smouldering corpse in the middle seat at 30,000 feet.

An airplane crash has a smouldering crater and a few hundred dead as its result.

They've managed to transition their country from comfortable and improving to a smouldering wreck.

Some of them, like Snaps and SystemD, get shoved down my throat so I hate them with a smouldering hate!

It was a very complex situation, as smouldering war zones usually are.

LA without warm winds at hurricane level strength: incompetent government and smouldering fires everywhere that cause no damage LA with high warm winds at hurricane level strength: incompetent government and smouldering fires everywhere that destroy entire neighborhoods ok.

I guess alternatives have been around long enough that people just ignore it rather than nurture an eternal smouldering hatred for it.

There are also smouldering fires in LA quite often.

Let's hope steam is not left a smouldering corpse.

Those most responsible are either betting they won't be around long enough to deal with the smouldering wreckage or planning to ditch before the country hits rock bottom.

Quote examples

" They've managed to transition their country from comfortable and improving to a smouldering wreck." No that was Russia.

The “quiet”, non‐turbulent smouldering of waste during the gasification phase means that the production of fly‐ash is almost eliminated, and the process does not suffer from temperature peaks and troughs, thus reducing problems with the formation of NOx and dioxins.

What they don't have to deal with is some short-term "investors" who want to extract a large hit of quick cash before leaving the smouldering ruin of a once-decent brand in their wake.

Like: "we used to have smouldering brush fire that we could put out, but since you dumped all that gas on it, now we will die because we have a forest fire raging all around us."