Moulder

Quick meaning: Moulder is a verb meaning Often followed by away or down: to cause (something) to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.

Meaning

Often followed by away or down: to cause (something) to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.

More Meanings

1. To cause (someone or something) to die away or disappear.
2. Often followed by away: to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.
3. To die away, to disappear.
4. Often followed by away: of a group of people (especially an army): to diminish in number; to dwindle.
5. A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks, pottery, etc.
6. An instrument or machine used to mould or shape material into objects.
7. (archaic) A person who moulds dough into loaves for baking into bread.

Example Sentences

How many men have we seen moulder and crumble away great estates, and yet pay no debts?

To them [the Muses] Great WILLIAM's Glory to recal / VVhen Statues moulder, and vvhen Arches fall.

[H]is [Time's] gradual touch / Has moulder'd into beauty many a tovver, / VVhich, vvhen it frovvn'd vvith all its battlements, / VVas only terrible: […]

[S]harp and corroding rheums had so early mouldered those rocks and hardest parts of his fabric [teeth], that a man might well conceive that his years were never like to double or twice tell over his teeth.

Word Forms

• moulders
• mouldering
• mouldered

Synonyms for moulder

Depending on context, synonyms include mould, decompose, rot, molder.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rot, decompose, molder, decay, smoulder, mummify.

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