different between blazing vs smouldering

blazing

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?ble?z??/
  • Rhymes: -e?z??

Verb

blazing

  1. present participle of blaze

Adjective

blazing (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Very fast.
  2. (slang, of a person) Sexually attractive.
    The actress, with her perfectly-curved body, was simply blazing in her new movie!
  3. Of tremendous intensity or fervor; white-hot.
    It was a performance of blazing ferocity.
  4. (informal) Exceedingly angry.
    The divorced couple had a blazing row.

See also

  • trail-blazing

Translations

Noun

blazing (plural blazings)

  1. The act of something that blazes or burns.
    the blazings of many fires

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smouldering

English

Alternative forms

  • smoldering US

Verb

smouldering

  1. present participle of smoulder
    • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, Guinevere
      Some evil chance / Will make the smouldering scandal break and blaze.

Noun

smouldering (plural smoulderings)

  1. (sometimes figuratively) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.
    the smoulderings of the Thirty Years War

Anagrams

  • remouldings

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