smoldering
verb
Meaning
- To burn with no flame and little smoke.
- To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion.
- To exist in a suppressed or hidden state.
- (sometimes figurative) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.
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