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Smouldering vs Shouldering - What's the difference?

smouldering | shouldering |

As verbs the difference between smouldering and shouldering

is that smouldering is while shouldering is .

As nouns the difference between smouldering and shouldering

is that smouldering is (sometimes|figurative) the act by which something smoulders; residual heat while shouldering is the act of pushing or barging with the shoulder.

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

    shouldering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of pushing or barging with the shoulder.
  • * (Elisha Kent Kane), Arctic Explorations
    • Our whole force was mustered and kept constantly on the alert; but, though there may have been something of discourtesy in the occasional shoulderings and hustlings that enforced the police of the ship, things went on good-humouredly.
  • * 2005 , Jeff Mann, Loving Mountains, Loving Men
    • at the Jefferson Memorial or the Statue of Liberty, amid the noisy presence and restless shoulderings of other tourists.