Usually means: Burning slowly without visible flame.
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  1. smouldering: Merriam-Webster
  2. smouldering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. smouldering: Vocabulary.com
  4. Smouldering, smouldering: Wordnik
  5. smouldering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. smouldering: Wiktionary
  7. smouldering: Dictionary.com
  8. Smouldering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Smouldering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. smouldering: Rhymezone
  11. Smouldering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. smouldering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. smouldering: FreeDictionary.org
  14. smouldering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. smouldering: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. smouldering: Encyclopedia

(Note: See smolder as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (smouldering)

adjective:  (British spelling) Burning slowly, producing smoke but no flame.
noun:  (sometimes figuratively) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.

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