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noun a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame
verb burn slowly and without a flame
verb have strong suppressed feelings
originFrom Middle English smolderen (“to suffocate, stifle”), from Middle English smolder (“smoke, smoky vapour”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *smolōn (“to burn, glow, fume, smoulder”). Related to Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (> English smell).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0