molder

mol·der /ˈməʊldə $ ˈmoʊldər/ verb [intransitiveI]

x-refthe American spelling of moulder / moulder 的美式拼法

Examples from the Corpus

molder• My father, who was superintendent of the Zodiac to the end, stayed on, and moldered away with the towns.• While my sisters and I attended to this half of the sandwich, the other half was moldering badly.• Decades-old medical supplies moldered in the warehouses.• Today the records of the Parliament of Religions molder on library shelves.• Old Doc himself was moldering peacefully in the ground just as he should be.• Once lodged in the seams of the clothing, they remained until time moldered the garments.• It loomed over the Angara River like a great rectangular tombstone, moldering toward oblivion in stunning disrepair.

Origin molder

(1500-1600) Probably from mold “earth” ((11-21 centuries)), from Old English molde; influenced by MOLD11

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