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smouldring

smouldring is the obsolete form of smouldering.

Meaning of smouldering

Adjective

smouldering

  1. (UK) Burning slowly, producing smoke but no flame.
    • And if we meet again, some evil chance / Will make the smouldering scandal break and blaze / Before the people, and our lord the King.1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Guinevere”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 229–230

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Questions about smouldring

What is smouldring the obsolete form of?
Smouldring is the obsolete form of smouldering.

Words near smouldring in the dictionary

  1. smouldering
  2. smoulderingly
  3. smoulderingness
  4. smoulderings
  5. smoulders
  6. smouldring
  7. smouldry
  8. smous
  9. smouse
  10. smoused
  11. smouser

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