smouldering

Definition of Smouldering in English :

1. smoldering, smouldering

showing scarcely suppressed anger

Example Sentences:
'her tone was...conversational although...her eyes were smoldering'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Smouldering

adjective

1.

burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke

for fear of turning the smouldering fire into a full-blown conflagration

Whole blocks had been turned into smouldering rubble.

2.

communicating suppressed or half-suppressed feelings, esp of anger, desire, etc

His darkly smouldering eyes never left her face.

There is a smouldering anger in the black community.

his smouldering hatred

v. & n.

Variant of smolder.

intr.v. smol·dered, smol·der·ing, smol·ders also smoul·dered or smoul·der·ing or smoul·ders

1. To burn with little smoke and no flame.

2. To exist in a suppressed state: Revolution smoldered in the masses.

3. To show signs of repressed anger or hatred.

n.

Thick smoke resulting from a slow fire.