Usually means: Burn slowly with no flame.
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  1. smoulder: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. smoulder: Merriam-Webster
  3. smoulder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. smoulder: Collins English Dictionary
  5. smoulder: Vocabulary.com
  6. smoulder: Wordnik
  7. smoulder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. smoulder: Wiktionary
  9. smoulder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. smoulder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. smoulder: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. smoulder: Dictionary.com
  13. smoulder: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Smoulder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. smoulder: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. smoulder: Rhymezone
  17. Smoulder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. smoulder: FreeDictionary.org
  19. smoulder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. smoulder: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. smoulder: Legal dictionary

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  1. smoulder: Encyclopedia

(Note: See smouldering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.
noun:  (obsolete) smoke; smother
noun:  A disease of narcissus and related flowers caused by the fungus Botrytis narcissicola, and characterized by dark brown lesions on the leaves.
verb:  (intransitive, chiefly British) Alternative form of smolder [(intransitive, now US) To burn with no flame and little smoke.]
noun:  Alternative form of smolder. [The act of smoldering or something that smolders.]

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