smolder

• vi.窒息させる；落ち込ませる
• n. くすぶる；窒息させる

低地ドイツ語のsmolen「くすぶる」「いぶす」「くすぶる」、原ゲルマン語*smulijana「燃やす」「くすぶる」から。

smolder (v.)

c. 1300 (implied in smoldering), "to smother, suffocate," related to Middle Dutch smolen, Low German smelen, Flemish smoel "hot," from Proto-Germanic *smel-, *smul-. The intransitive meaning "burn and smoke without flame" is first recorded 1520s, fell from use 17c. (though smoldering persisted in poetry) and was revived 19c. Figurative sense "exist in a suppressed state; burn inwardly" is from 1810. Related: Smouldered; smolderingly. Middle English also had a noun smolder meaning "smoky vapor, a stifling smoke."

1. The smolder became a blaze.

とろ火で炎になる。

2.The smolder will soon be a flame.

蒸れはすぐに炎になる。

3.It can smolder undetected for hours,then suddenly explode in fiery destruction.

も何時間も気づかれず、突然激しい爆発を起こす可能性がある。