SMOULDER

US usually smolder [verb] [I] - to burn slowly with smoke but without flamesTwo firefighters stayed at the scene to keep an eye on the smouldering remains.Safety regulations prevent the sale of any furniture that will catch fire from a smouldering cigarette.Volcanoes can smoulder for many years without erupting.(figurative) The civil war has been smouldering on for the past fifteen years. [I](figurative) The dispute is still smouldering, five years after the negotiations began.If a strong emotion smoulders, it exists, but is prevented from being expressed.She was smouldering with rage as she explained how her son had been killed.The farmers' smouldering resentment has finally developed into a powerful protest movement.A person who smoulders has strong sexual or romantic feelings but does not express them.She said nothing, but it was obvious from the way she smouldered that she found Chris very attractive.He gazed at her with smouldering eyes, wishing she wasn't married.Much of his success is due to his smouldering good looks.