moldered

past tense of molder

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for moldered
Verb
  • Woolf's remains were found unclothed and partially decomposed near the San Joaquin trailhead in Tucson in December 2024.
    Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The body had decomposed, but the uniform the person was wearing and other equipment was well-preserved, L’Adige reported.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Our brains are irrevocably rotted.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • Before flight 10, Starship's most recent demonstration came on May 27, when the spacecraft spun out of control roughly halfway through its flight and disintegrated in a fireball.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
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“Moldered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moldered. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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