verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fire smoulders (= a little smoke comes from a fire when it has almost gone out )
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The fire was smouldering in the grate.
sb’s eyes are burning/smouldering/blazing with hate literary
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Then he noticed the dark eyes, smouldering with hate.
smouldering resentment (= resentment that is felt for a long time but not expressed )
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The unrest highlighted the smouldering resentment in France's poor neighbourhoods.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fire
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In areas of shallow coal seams and dried out peat deposits, fires can smoulder below ground level for years.
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Somehow they had kept a fire smouldering here.
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But as the fire began to smoulder , Gore's sister Catherine paid an unexpected visit to her parents cottage.
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It took him a few moments to realize what it was, from the pinkish glow of the fire smouldering beneath it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The fire in the chemical factory was so intense that it was still smouldering a week later.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In areas of shallow coal seams and dried out peat deposits, fires can smoulder below ground level for years.
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In plates around the room were fortune cookies, srnall Buddhas and smouldering joss sticks.
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My boots and feet were smouldering when they found me.
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Oh, two rugs on the stone floor were smouldering but the fire was contained.
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The slow burn of resentment smouldered inside her.
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Then he noticed the dark eyes, smouldering with hate at him from beneath tangled strands of black hair.
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They're less impressive as they smoulder , marmalade-like, over a pair of kohl-black eyebrows.
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Two-year-old Bethany Hudson's alarm started to smoulder and smoke as she lay in her cot.