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 victim was so badly decomposed, the medical examiner couldn’t even estimate her age or ethnicity.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026
Its recruit and redeploy stages require roles decomposed into explicit tasks—making what AI can augment answerable task by task.

— Manu Khetan, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of decomposed

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The resulting collisions formed excited compound nuclei that decayed through multiple gamma-ray steps.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026
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

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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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Then, the entire Soviet Union disintegrated, with all 15 republics breaking away, but in a peaceful process that Gorbachev hoped would lead to the creation of new democracies across Europe and Asia.

— Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
It was revealed that the NFL quarterback’s relationship with the family had disintegrated over the years.

— Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026

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