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Traditional English :: smoulder
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smouth.html - v. & n. (US smolder) --v.intr.
1 burn slowly with smoke but without a flame; slowly burn internally or invisibly.
2 (of emotions etc.) exist in a suppressed or concealed state.
3 (of a person) show silent or suppressed anger, hatred, etc. --n. a smouldering or slow-burning fire. [ME, rel. to LG smæln, MDu. smælen] |
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English Idioms :: smoke
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smouth.html - See: CHAIN-SMOKE, GO UP IN FLAMES or GO UP IN SMOKE, PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT, WATCH ONE'S DUST or WATCH ONE'S SMOKE. |
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English Idioms :: smoke like a chimney
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smouth.html - {v. phr.}, {informal} To smoke very heavily and continuously. * /"If you continue smoking like a chimney" the doctor told my uncle, "you'll wind up in the hospital with lung cancer."/ |
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English Idioms :: smoke out
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smouth.html - {v. phr.} 1. To force out with smoke. * /The boys smoked a squirrel out of a hollow tree./ * /The farmer tried to smoke some gophers out of their burrows./ 2. {informal} To find out the facts about. * /It took the reporter three weeks to smoke out the whole story./ |
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English Idioms :: smoke screen
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smouth.html - {n. phr.} A camouflage; a veil; something used to cover or hide something. * /June hides her commercial interests behind a smoke screen of religious piety./ |
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English Idioms :: smoke-out
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smouth.html - {n.} A successful conclusion of an act of investigative journalism revealing some long-kept secrets. * /Journalist Bob Woodward was the hero of the Watergate smoke-out./ |
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