moldered

past tense of molder

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for moldered
Verb
  • Two people discovered badly decomposed human remains while doing a walkthrough of a home for sale in Ohio, police told news outlets.
    Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Their remains were either so badly decomposed to be identified, or perhaps their dog tags were missing.
    Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • When a small job of filling in a hole that a pet has dug or where a root has rotted, homeowners can easily handle this type of job themselves.
    Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The wooden floor has rotted through, and only a few flimsy stairs remain attached to telephone poles, which once propped up the tower.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But Iran’s model decayed even in places where Israel and the United States had not attacked for some time.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Within the next 18 days, the new short July 25 90/115 strangle would be worth only 46 cents, also having decayed by more than 80% of the value when the trade was initiated, at which point a trader could have rolled the short strangle yet again.
    Michael Khouw, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • During re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, the vehicle disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts on board.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025
  • These plans disintegrated in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attacks on southern Israel, which killed 1,200 people and resulted in the taking of 251 hostages.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Moldered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moldered. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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