Definition of "smouldered" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of smoulder. (verb)

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• "It kind of smouldered along for a while, then broke out again when both of them began to bid on Government beef contracts."
• "The Sun declared Alesha 'smouldered' and that 'even acid-tongued judge Craig Revel Horwood would have given her top marks.'"
• "Europe's common currency has defied naysayers by jumping some 2.5% this year even as the Continent's sovereign-debt crisis has smouldered."