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Smothering vs Smouldering - What's the difference?

smothering | smouldering |

As verbs the difference between smothering and smouldering

is that smothering is while smouldering is .

As nouns the difference between smothering and smouldering

is that smothering is the act by which someone or something is smothered while smouldering is (sometimes|figurative) the act by which something smoulders; residual heat.

smothering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which someone or something is smothered.
  • * 2010 , Harry Hill, Livin' the Dreem: A Year in My Life (page 397)
    • When he came to, he begged me not to tell the hotel management, as his last two attempted smotherings had ended in failure and he was worried about losing his job.

    smouldering

    English

    Alternative forms

    * smoldering US

    Verb

    (head)
  • * Tennyson
    • Some evil chance / Will make the smouldering scandal break and blaze.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sometimes, figurative) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.
    • the smoulderings of the Thirty Years War