MOLDERED Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

moldered

verb

past tense of molder

as in decomposed

to go through decomposition leaves moldering in the compost pile

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Recent Examples of moldered The bodies of their mothers, fathers, grandparents, children and babies had moldered in a room-temperature building in Colorado. — Jesse Bedayn, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026

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The body had decomposed and had already undergone one autopsy, which meant that the organs including the lungs and the neck structures were already removed.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
Riverside County sheriff's investigators recovered the remains the following day near Highway 74, but the body had decomposed so extensively that authorities were unable to determine who the victim was despite extensive investigative efforts.

— Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 16 July 2026

Definition of decomposed

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In order to have aqueous alteration there needs to be some internal heating [usually via radioactive elements] and if something forms later than everything else then there will be less heat [since many of the radioactive elements will have already decayed].

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 June 2026
But since sitting vacant, the property has decayed and listed in city property records as unoccupiable.

— Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez, Charlotte Observer, 18 May 2026

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The missing 14-year-old’s body rotted for weeks until it was found in the trunk of a Tesla at a Hollywood tow yard last September, severed at the limbs and stuffed into black plastic bags, according to medical examiner’s records and court filings.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
While the timber has long since rotted away, the posts lined up to point directly at the rising sun during the summer solstice and the setting sun at the winter solstice — in the same way as Stonehenge.

— Elmira Aliieva, NBC news, 18 June 2026

Definition of rotted

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Flights in early 2025, though, ended in a series of failures including two in which the Starship upper stage disintegrated in a fiery cascade of debris across the skies visible from Florida and the Caribbean.

— Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2026
In the two-thousands, after the State disintegrated, Wain and two other members, Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black, formed the trio Stella, which helped define New York’s downtown alt-comedy scene.

— Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 5 July 2026

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